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serrate, lonfl. aciuniiiato, jiaiiicle long leafy naked at the end 
with short eoryinhose hranehes, sep. ovate tonientose loosely 
rejlexed from tlie fruit. — St. green or greenish jjnrple ; ])rickles 
mostly large, hut a few smaller passing into acieuli and setae. 
I’aniele slightly hranehed ; raehis rather sparingly setose. Sep. 
without a leatlike ])oint, clothed with a whitish tomcntnm and a 
few seta'. — a. Radula ; st. with numerous seta; and few hairs, 1. 
glabrous with impressed veins above whitish-green and pubescent 
beneath, leaH. ovate-aeuminate variable in size. R. G. 39. var. 
j3. Bab. ed. 1. — /3. Ihjstrix ; st. with fewer seta;, 1. with scattered 
hairs and slightly impressed veins above green and slightly hairy 
beneath, lead, often much narrowed below'. R. G. 41. — y- pyy- 
nupiis ; st. roundish with numerous prickles acieuli seta; and 
hairs, 1. with scattered hairs and scarcely impressed veins above 
green and softly hairy beneath, lead, ohovate acuminate : petiole 
with numerous unequal slightly hooked prickles and short thick 
acieuli. R. G. 42. — 5. foliosus ; st. slightly angular with very 
short acieuli seta; and hairs, 1. with scattered hairs above greenish- 
white soft and downy beneath, lead, ovate-acuminate : petiole as 
in var. y. R. G. 28. — Hedges and thickets, not very common. 
Sh. VII. VIII. ■ E. S. 
23. ? R. Lingua (Weihe) ; st. procumbent or arched slightly 
angular rough, prickles unequal nearly straight declining acieuli 
seta; and hairs few’ and short, 1. 5-nate or 3-nate nearly glabrous 
above pale green or whitish and hairy beneath, lead, ohovate 
abrupt cuspidate, panicle lax with mostly 1-Jlou'ered branehe.s 
and large simple doral leaves, sep. ovate tomentose cuspidate 
loosely redexed from the fruit. — R. G. 38. — St. green or greenish- 
purple. Prickles not very numero;is, moderate, fewer than in 
R. Radula and less decidedly larger than the acieuli. Panicle 
nearly simple with very long pedicels; raehis and branches 
clothed with an ashy tomentum, short set®, and slender jn-ickles. 
Cal. greenish. Scarcely distinct from R. Radula. — /3. tomentosus ; 
lead, ohovate aeumin.ate soft and ashy-white beneath, panicle w'ith 
corymbose about 3-dowered branches. R. scaber R. G. 32. ? — 
Devon. Dumfries-shire. /3. Jersey. Dorset. Sh.VII. — IX. E.S. 
tt Prickles not condned to the angles of the stem and passing 
insensibly into setae. 
24. R. fusco-ater (Weihe); st. decumbent angular slightly 
hairy setose, prickles numerous unequal straight, 1. 5-nate opaque 
above ])ale soft shining and silky beneath, leaf,, cordate-ovate 
acuminate wavy, lower pair overlapping the interm, pair, panicle 
leafy below downy and setose with corymbose branches, cal. of 
fr. patent or loosely redexed. — R. G. 2G. R. Radula height. — 
St. with many rather unequal moderately large prickles and 
more or less numerous unequal smaller ones connecting them 
