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subequal short acicles and stalked glands on the faces ; Dr. Focke 

 (in B. E. C. Rep. 1888, p. 209) has named it R.fmcus, which the 

 dried specimens undoubtedly recall, though the living plant looked 

 different enough. The Surrey plant is far more strongly armed, 

 the prickles, acicles and stalked glands being very numerous, 

 unequal, and scattered on the subglabrous st. Its Its. are broader, 

 and remarkably sinuate-dentate ; its sep. patent or loosely reflexed 

 in fr. 



57. E. Babingtonii Bell-Salt. Ann. Nat. Hist. xv. 807; Journ. 

 Bot. 1886, pp. 228, 229. — " St. arcuate-prostrate, terete or sub- 

 sulcate; prickles many, short, declining from a long compressed 

 base; strong short, aciculi, as well as 'setae and hairs, few; 1. 

 3-5-nate ; Its. doubly dentate, opaque and pilose above, pale green 

 and pilose beneath ; term. It. broadly obovate-cK,s/w/ate, subcordate 

 below ; pan. usually large, leafy, with subracemose or nearly simple 

 branches ; its prickles few, small, slender ; its aciculi and setne 

 slender, few, except near the top of pan. and branches ; sep. 

 lanceolate-acuminate, leaf-pointed, erect-patent with fruit; stam. 

 equalling or exceeding the styles." Apparently not very rare; 

 but I do not understand it. 



58. R. scaber W. & N. Journ. Bot. 1886, p. 229.— S*. prostrate, 

 roundish, glaucous, with much short hair or appressed down, rough 

 with short stalked glands and scale-like tubercles. Prickles short, stout- 

 based, deflexed or declining, rather scattered. L. 3-5-nate, usually 

 chiefly 3-nate, with a few 5-nate-pedate. Lts. rather coriaceous, 

 sharply unequally serrate- dentate, green and shortly hairy on both 

 sides, harsh to the touch beneath ; term, rather broadly ovate or 

 obovate-acuminate (the point usually short), cordate or subcordate, 



Pan. chiefly ultra' axillary, the upper branches erect-patent, few- 

 flowered, the lower rather long, ascending, subracemose', rachis and 

 ped. usually felted with short hairs, and densely clothed with vpry 



shortly stalked glands, and a few longer ones and scattered acicles 

 intermixed. Fl. small. Sep. with long point, erect-patent or loosely 

 reflexed after flowering, greenish with white margin, very glandular 

 and aciculate. Pet. narrow, white. Stam. far exceeding greenish 

 styles. Hedges, &c. Warw., Oxon (very variable), Surr., Hants ? 



Dev. 



Distinct enough when typical ; but it seems almost as variable 



as the next, and cannot always be easily distinguished from it. 



W. & N. — St. angular above, usually densely 



patent-hairy, with more or less numerous stalked glands and 

 tubercles hidden in the hair, dull brown, often glaucous. Prickles 

 usually rather short, declining, and only partially confined to the 

 angles. L. mostly 5-nate-pedate. Lts. thin and brittle, very 

 coarsely and unevenly serrate or incise-serrate, slightly hairy and 



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long point. Pan. rather long and lax, with subequal few-flowered erect- 

 patent or divaricate branches, the lower scarcely if nt all longer than 

 the upper, and cymose or pseudo-umbellate ; rachis and ped. de?isely 

 tnatpnt-hairii. with manv stalked erlands shorter than the hairs, and 



