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THE NATURALIST. 



This species wMcli seems to be almost equally common witli the last m 

 distinguished from it by its hairy peduncle, calyx and germen,. by its larger 

 and almost glabrous leaves, and by its calyx generally patent on the ripening 

 fruit. I have preserved Dr. Eingerhuth's name, although I am not clear 

 that the style is in all cases as he states rejiexed, still in many of the speci- 

 cimens which I would refer to it, it is so. It seems to be also the form 

 generally described by authors as the monogyna of Jacquin, " with peduncles 

 and calyx hairy," but I think this can scarcely be admitted in face of his 

 " pedunculi nuUis villis pubescent." I prefer therefore to refer the form, 

 with naked peduncles to his name, and to separate the other with hairy 

 peduncles under Dr. Fingerhuth's name. 



iv. C. LACiNiATA. Ster. 



' ' Affinis C. monogynVt cliff ert vero, foliis fere pinnatis, pinna extima trilola conflu- 

 ente cum lateralibus duse infimee a reliquis magis distantes in petiolum quidquam decur- 

 rentes bifidse, omnes vero oblongo-lanceolatfe, insequaliter inciso-serratse. Florentem 

 nondum vidi, * 



Besser Enumexatio, p. 159, dato 1822, 



C. monogyna ^ laciniata, Ledebour Fl. Eus. ii. p. 89. 



This seems so far as the leaves are concerned to be quite distinct from 

 any of the other forms, and may readily be detected even in driving quickly 

 along the road, from the other forms growing side by side with it in the 

 hedges. The leaves are in many instances quite pinnate, the lower pinnae 

 being almost always divided quite down to the midrib, and the next 

 pair very frequently so ; they are quite glabrous on both sides, but occasion- 

 ally somewhat ciliate on the edges near the base. The upper surface is a 

 dark green colour, whilst the under, is much lighter frequently whitish green. 

 The flowers I liave not seen. The difference in the foliage cannot be attribu- 

 ted to situation, soil, or exposure, as I have frequently seen it growing here 

 between two shrubs of monogyna in the same hedge, and recently whilst 

 in the Isle of Man I remarked the same. 



There is a species described by Bunge as C. pinnatijida, (Enum. plant. 

 Chin. K'o. 157 in Mem. de Y acad. des Sciences de St. Petersburg 2. p. 100.) 

 as being a high growing shrub with thorns, and spread over Northern 

 China and as far the Amoor, and the Manchurian coast and probably also 

 near St. Petersburg. The leaves are described as broad, oval, and pinnate, 

 with from 2-4 pinnas on each side, of vfhich the lowest are somewhat rectan- 



* Since writing the above I have received from Mr. Baker, a sprig of fruit of C. laci- 

 niata, taken from a hedge at Kew, and can therefore add the following particulars : — 

 fioribus corymbosis monogynis, fructibus globoso-ovatis, pedunculis glabris, nucleo uno. 



