- 284 NOTES ON BRITISH RUBI. 
adopting these old —— unless it is quite certain to what they 
“ers now app'y : either does it seem desirable to take up some 
eglected name fom some forgotten paper or obscure inaug 
Saoartation:: 
_R. dentatus Blox. is exactly the R. derasus Mill. io ‘ Pollichia,’ 
1859, 166). It is not noticed by Nyman. It is the A. Miillert 
; : — er 
retained. Focke refers R. geromensis to R. serpens of Weihe, but 
not of other authors, who give that name to one of the Cesit. 
The characters of R. Bellardi and R. hirtus do not seem to 
require SE from those given in my ‘ Manua al.’ 
45. (467) R. penputinus Miill. A curious specimen found by 
Baker ‘abundantly in a hedge about a mile south of Saeeere 
in July, 1869, and called R. Bellardi doubtfully, seems to be the f 
pendulinus, of which I have authentic specimens before me. Tt is 
peony allied to R. Bellardi, but apparently aaite distinct. Baker 
found all the leaves ternate, and so they are on the original specimens 
sent by Boulay to Génévier. But other specimens have 5-nate 
leaves. Baker says on the ticket that the “ styles are claret-red, 
petals white and not longer than the sepals.” The stamens also 
seem to fall short of 0 o The inflorescence is very narrow 
and nearly — tra-foliaceous, with very short ov Lee 
ranches, and a more or less wavy rachis. The calyx is erect- 
_— with the oie and shows that it is probably reflexed rune 
it. I define it:— 
*R. pendulinus Mill. ; a arcuate-prostrate, abs nearly round ; 
prickles small, weak, declining from a short compressed base ; 
aciculi and sete abundant, short, nearly equal ; ‘ba rs few; leaves 
35. nate; leaflets hairy only o n the veins beneath, finely but rather 
irregula: arly dentate ; leafiets of ternate —- nearly equal, bene 
subcordate-obovate ; terminal leaflet much acuminate ; ; 
short, narrow, flexuose, felted, hairy, very Saclicalah and setose ; its 
branches — 1-flowered or racemose, mostly ultra-axillary, ! 
ose; its prickles very small, slender, declining; sepals 
ovate- Sattictanbe; aciculate, setose, felted, erect-patent with flowers 
reflexed from fruit; petals small, white; stamens exceeding the 
pink styles. — The young carpels are hairy; in R. Bellardi and R. 
hirtus they are | the styles of those are also greenish white. 
46. (468) R nett oes d many — of this in 
Herb. Génév., Sauhiding o from England: (1) Atherstone, 
Bloxam ; (2) cultivated KA en Baker. They agree well with the 
foreign specime 
R. rotundifolius Blox. is a rather marked form of R. hirtus. Tt 
is not the R. rotundifolius Weihe quoted by Focke, but is the f. 
— obably — seh slightly. varying forms might 
be separated from R. hirtus I do not know any British R. fuseus 
"3 work ; in the it is oe on 
47. (469) R. Reurerr Mere. f this in 
ai een: oe of Mere. I canno _ any notice 0 
There are are specimens in the Herb. Génév. under this name- 
