144 Rhodora [AvcusT 
White resembles the foregoing in all respects except the color of its 
fruit which is pale yellow or white.” In 1867, Dr. Asa Gray? in 
describing ubus occidentalis says: “Fruit purple-black (rarely a 
whitish variety)." 
In 1867, also, Andrew S. Fuller? wrote of it the only good account 
I have found, and it is well worth being recorded in a botanical 
journal. 
“AMERICAN WHITE CAP. Yellow Cap, Golden Cap. Fruit one- 
half to five-eighths of an inch broad, slightly oval; grains larger 
than in the preceding variety (American Black Raspberry); pale 
or deep yellow, covered with a white bloom; sweet, juicy, rather 
musky, but agreeable; canes light yellow, slightly glaucous; only 
moderately productive. This variety is also found wild from Maine 
to the Mississippi River and probably further west. I have received 
it from nearly all the Northern states and from the southern portion 
of the State of Delaware. It is seldom found in any great number, 
and this is probably one reason why so many people have supposed 
they had discovered something new when they had accidentally 
found one of these plants growing wild. Nearly every season I 
receive letters from different parts of the country, describing a new 
and remarkable wild variety of white raspberry, but when the plants 
are received they have invariably proved to be this variety. The 
habit of the plant is as good as could be desired, producing no 
suckers, but propagating from the tips of the young canes." 
Prof. L. H. Bailey * in 1898 closed his description of A. occidentalis 
with a brief account of this plant. “Amber-fruited forms of the 
black cap are occasionally found in wild areas.” And in 1902 in 
his latest contribution on this genus® he advances a step. “Var 
PaLLiDUS has amber-yellow fruit, sometimes found in the wild." So 
at last this variety has received a botanical name; but, as pallidus 
has already been used at least twice in this genus the writer proposes 
a new name. 
This amber-fruited plant seems to be a good variety but a variety 
! Manual, Ed. 5, 1867, p. 157. 
2 Small Fruit Culturist, N. Y., 1867, Ed. 1, p. 142. 
3 Note that Mr. Fuller did not call them steri/e canes. 
* Evolution of our Native Fruits, N. Y., 1898, p. 289. 
*Cyclopaedia Am. Hort., N. Y., 1902, Vol. 4, p. 1582. 
