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AN ESSAY AT A KEY TO BRITISH RUBI. 



EV. W. MOYLE RoGE 



(Continued from p. 305.) 



62. R. Lejeunei W 



St. sub- 



terete, glaucous, apparently having mostly only a scanty clothing of 



hair, acicles and stalked glands. Prickles slender, rather unequal, 



subulate -lanceolate, declining from moderate compressed base, L.' 

 3-5-nate, chiefly 8-nate. Lts. thin, light green, with shallow distant 

 partly recurved teeth, thinly hairy above, paler and more or less 

 hairy beneath; term, obov ate- oblong, cuspidate, with narrow sub- 

 cordate or emarginate base. Pan. long, lax, narrow, leafy below, 

 the ultra-axillary part often simply racemose, or nearly so ; raehis 

 and ped. felted and densely clothed with rather short white hair hiding 

 the shortly stalked glands ; prickles usually very slender, declining, 

 though often strong on the raehis of the large panicles. Fl. large. 

 Sep. usually long-pointed and reflexed, but clasping the fr. in the 

 S. Dev. plants. "Pet. of a beautiful pink." Stam. far exceeding 

 the greenish styles. 



A "species" very imperfectly understood by me, both as to its 

 distinctive characters and its distribution in Engl. The plant 

 which used most commonly to receive this name among us Prof. 



found 



Wir 



63. R. Rhenanus P. J. Muell. ? R. thyrsiger Bab. prius, Journ 

 Bot. 1886, pp. 226, 227 ; 1888, p. 379 ; B. E. C. Rep. 1888, pp. 208, 

 209. — St. arcuate-prostrate, bluntly angular, striate, more or less 

 glaucous, with crowded stellate hairs, and many subequal acicles and 

 stalked glands. Prickles rather unequal, subfalcate or declining 

 from large compressed base, nearly confined to angles. L. chiefly 

 6-nate-pedate. Lts. rather coarsely dentate-serrate, green on both 

 sides, paler and only slightly hairy beneath; term, obtusanyular- 

 obovate, cuspidate-acuminate, with narrow and usually entire base. 

 Pan. remarkably long, rather lax, pyramidal, very hairy, with a good 



many rather shortly stalked glands, acicles and slender prickles, 

 with long ascending racemose-corymbose or racemose-umbellate 

 few-flowered branches below ; the ultra- axillary part elongated with 

 many erect-patent 1-2-flowered branches ; all the branches, and 

 nearly all the fl., except the term, one, having very long stalks. Sep. 

 ovate-acuminate, reflexed in fl., more or less patent or erect in fr. 

 Pet. rather large, ovate-oblong, distant, pink or pinkish. Stam. 

 pink, far exceeding purplish styles. 



A very distinct-looking plant, with its long nearly naked pan,, 

 its many long-stalked and mostly single-flowered upper branches, 

 and its very hairy stem. It is the " R. Bloxamii" of FL Plym. 



I have seen none but Dev. & Cornw. specimens. 



64. R. longithyrsiger Lees. R. pyramidalis Bab. prius. 

 St. prostrate, bluntly angular, striate, slightly hairy, with many 

 short subequal acicles and stalked glands. Prickles subequal, 



