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and several 3 -fid and simple 1., tlie top blunt, and the term. fl. 

 sessile or subsessile, the lower branches distant, long, ascending ; 

 rachis nearly straight, hairy, ivith many weak declining prickle* and 

 acicles, and a few nearly sessile glands. Sep. ovate, with long acumi- 

 nate point, felted, with woolly hairs and an occasional acicle, 

 embracing fr. Pet. lanceolate, narrowed below, white. Rare. 



This description is drawn chiefly from the Rev. A. Ley's Acon- 

 bury plant. Dr. Focke has stated his belief (B. K. C. Report, 1887) 

 that his 11. Danicus (which he considered a plant of the Rev. W. II. 

 Painter's from Bemersley Norton, Staffs., to be) "will prove a mere 

 form of the original 11. Safari from Apse Castle Wood." 



B. St. usually conspicuously hairy (except in Colemanni and 

 podophyllum), and sometimes having a few stalked glands. Pan. 

 usually glandular, and somewhat aciculate. 



35. R. Colemanni Blox. — St. strong and high-arching, angular, 

 sulcate, with a good many short stellate and scattered hairs at first, 

 and a very occasional acicle and stalked gland. Prickles many, 

 strong, declining from very large dilated compressed base. L. 5-nate- 

 pedate. Lts. remarkably convex, green on both sides, opaque above, 

 slightly paler and softly hairy beneath with prominent pale nerves, 

 irregularly (and, in the Surrey plant, coarsely) dentate, often imbri- 

 cate, their stalks and midribs strongly armed with hooked and 

 falcate prickles. Pan. long, pyramidal, narrowly cylindrical and 

 truncate above often with simple ovate or cordate-ovate floral 1., 

 with several ascending axillary branches below ; rachis hairy, with 



many strongly-de flexed long-based prickles, and some acicles and stalked 



glands in the upper part. Sep. loosely reflexed in fr., cuspidate- 

 acuminate or with linear point, concave, externally ashy-felted with 

 very narrow white margin, hairy and more or less glandular and 

 aciculate. Pet. large, oval, clawed, pinkish or white. Stam. 

 pinkish, greatly exceeding yellowish styles. Heaths and hedges 

 (Leic, Warw., and Surr.). 



A conspicuous bramble with its strong high arching st., curiously 

 convex 1., and large prickly pan. In Mr. Bloxam's Leic. specimens 

 the Its. are more rounded in outline and less coarsely toothed than 

 in the Surrey plant. 



3G. K. micans Gren. & Godr. (1848). R. hypoUucus Lefv. & 



Muell. (1859). JR. adscitus Geuev. (1860). — St. bluntly angular, 



thickly clothed with stellate and spreading hairs, and having a few 



(sometimes very few) stalked glands. Prickles not confined to angles, 

 mostly strong, but more or less unequal, and often passing into 

 acicles, declining or nearly patent from large compressed base. 

 L. 3-nate and 5-nate-pedate, rarely digitate. Lis. obovate-acuminate, 

 lobate-serrate, with crowded compound acute teeth, opaque and sub- 

 glabrous above, ashy-felted beneath; term, sometimes broadly 

 ovate, though more frequently, like the interna, (when the 1. is 

 5-nate), obovate, subcordate. Pan. long, leafy,jryramidal-cylindrical f 

 with topmost branches (1-3-flowered) exceeding the shortly- stalked 

 term. fl. ; the lower branches cymose-corymbose, 3-o-flowered, 

 subpatent; the 1. and flexuose rachis coloured and clothed like st. 1. 



