1905] Blanchard, The Yellow-Fruited Raspberry 145 
only. It is very distinct from the western Æ. /ewcodermis, Douglass 
which is at best a very weak species. Having examined a good deal 
of herbarium material and read several accounts of this western plant 
by those who have seen or known it in its native haunts, I think 
Card’s' disposition of it is correct and quote Bailey’s ? description of 
it which may be compared with Fuller’s description of the yellow- 
fruited form. “Var. LEUCODERMIS, Card (R. leucodermis, Douglass) . 
Leaflets more coarsely serrate-dentate, sometimes nearly incise- 
serrate, the prickles strong and more hooked : fruit reddish black or 
black. Rocky Mts. and West.” 
Card3 gives thirteen horticultural varieties of the Yellow Cap 
most of them being taken from Crozier's list. Most of them were 
wildlings. The cultivated forms have never proved to be as fruitful 
nor as fine-flavored as some of the Black Caps and few are in culti- 
vation at present. I have found a few people who have seen it wild. 
The writer found it July r9, 1902, on the farm of Mr. Joseph Far- 
well near Amsden in Weathersfield, Vermont, about two miles south- 
west of Mt. Ascutney. It was well spread over an acre or more in 
the road, in mowing and pasture. Inquiry proved that it had been 
well known to the owner of the farm from the beginning of his occu- 
pancy of thirty years, and there was no reason to believe that it was 
ever cultivated in that section. Specimens are in the Gray Herba- 
rium and that of the New Jersey Botanical Garden. It is interesting 
here to note that Mr. O. P. Fullam, now of Westminster, Vermont, 
found it on Hawk Mt. about seven miles southwest of my Amsden 
station about thirty years ago. 
Mr. L. P. Sprague of Burlington, Vermont, found it in Burlington 
in r9or in a place that led him to suspect that it probably grew from 
a seed dropped by a bird. Mr. L. R. Taft now Horticulturist at the 
Michigan Agricultural College reports that he has found it in several 
places in Massachusetts and Michigan, — single plants which sug- 
gested to him a similar origin. Prof. C. H. Peck, State Botanist of - 
New York found an isolated specimen in 1902 in the road near Albia, 
Rensselaer Co., New York, a specimen of which is preserved.5 
1 Card, Bush Fruits, N. Y., 1898, p. 319. 
? Cyclopaedia Am. Hort., N. Y., 1902, Vol. 4, p. 1582. 
3 Bush Fruits, pp. 161—176. 
* Crozier, Bull. 111, Mich. Exp. Sta. 
$ N. Y, State Museum Bul. 67, May 1903, p. 32. 
