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subracemose erect-patent, rachis angular.—R. G. 27. (not of Man. 
ed. 2).—St. thick, rather spongy, round or roundly angular, 
greenish. Prickles scarcely as long as the longer diameter of 
their depressed base. L. subpedate. Term. Its. of fi.-shoot 
short, broad. Sep. ovate, mucronate, reflexed.—Hedges and 
thickets. Leicestershire. Worcestershire. Hertfordshire. Sh. 
VIL. VIII. E. 
25, R. Babingtonii (Bell Salt.); st. prostrate angular or fur- 
rowed, prickles short strong compressed deflexed chiefly on the 
angles, aciculi many short with enormous bases, sete scattered 
small short, hair deciduous, 1. 3—5-nate green and pilose on both 
sides coarsely dentate, term. It. broadly obovate abruptly cuspidate, 
pan. long leafy throughout rather prickly, branches axillary ascend- 
ing hairy tomentose setose, prickles of rachis slender much de- 
clining from a very large base of the branches slender suberect, 
rachis angular not tomentose, sep. ovate-lanceolate acuminate 
patent or reflexed.—St. strong, round at the base, furrowed at 
the end, greenish purple. Prickles singularly thick but often very 
short. L. subpedate. Term. lt. of fl.-shoot broad, a little nar- 
rowed below.—8. R. Bloramu (Lees); prickles moderate slightly 
declining, aciculi and sete small, hairs more numerous, branches 
of pan. corymbose. Intermediate forms connect this with the 
type. Also intimately connected with R. Hystriz. Term. lts. 
very broad, often nearly round; on fl.-shoot subcordate below.— 
Thickets. 8. Leicestershire. Warwickshire. Sh. VII. VIII. E. 
26. R. Hystrix (Weihe); st. arched angular slightly furrowed, 
prickles slender much dilated at base slightly declining rather scat- 
tered, aciculi few setee many hairs few all nearly equally short, 
1. pedate green and pilose on both sides dentate-serrate, term. It. 
obovate oblong acuminate, pan. long leafy rather prickly with race- 
mose ascending branches below upper half leafless with short 
atent or divaricate branches, prickles on fl.-shoot large-based 
Feats on pan. very slender, rachis wavy, sep. lanceolate-at- 
tenuate (point flattened and dilated) erect-patent on fruit.— R. G. 
4\.—St. greenish-purple. Prickles sometimes very small. L. 
paler and more hairy, but not white, beneath; term. It. gradually 
narrowed into a long point in the typical plant, narrowed below 
on both shoots.—Hedges and thickets. Sh. VII. VIII. E. 
27. R. Radula (Weihe); st. arched angular, prickles compressed 
from a dilated base declining unequal and passing into aciculi, 
aciculi sete and hairs many unequal, J. pedate whztish-green and 
downy beneath unequally and finely serrate, term. It. ovate acumi- 
nate, pan. long leafy slightly prickly naked at the end with short 
corymbose ascending branches, prickles of fl.-shoot and base of 
pan. strong large-based deflexed, sep. ovate long not leaf-pointed 
loosely reflexed from the fruit.—R. G. 39,—The y. ad and 
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