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Rhodora 



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vated sections it becomes less common and less ])rodiictive, and berry 

 pickers resort to the square Ijlackberrv. This in still more elevated 

 sections becomes scarce and the mountain blackberry, R. canadensis, 

 often called the "sour blackberry" is the common kind. 



At the type station in Alstead, N. H., R. pergmfus and R. nirjro- 

 bacrus grow in perfection side by side and the former ripens two weeks 

 the earlier. It is an exact match for the cultivated fruit sold in Bellows 

 Falls, Vt., where it is marketed. AVith its large druj^elets the seeds 

 are hardly noticeable while the fruit of R. nigrobaccus with often 100 

 drupelets is characteristically "seedy," but its {)eculiarly aromatic 

 taste nevertheless makes it the king of blackberries. I have deposited 

 an abundant supj)ly of specimens of this species in the Gray Her- 

 barium. 



Westminster, Vermont. i 



SOME NEW RE(T)RL)S OF MAINE PLANTS. 



Ora W. Knight. 



Eriophorvm poli/slac/iion L. In Prof. Fernald's recent article on 

 North American Species of Eriophorum, Rhodora, May, 1905, p. 89, 

 he does not give this species as found southwest of Nova Scotia and 

 New Brunswick, all ISIaine specimens being referred to the variety 

 claims Bab. Some slender specimens which I collected at Veazie, 

 June 10, 1905, where they were growing in a wet meaclow, have been 

 referred to the sjiccies by Prof. Fernakl thus giving it a |>lace in our 

 flora. 



Eriophorum riridi-cariuatum fclloivsii Fernald. I am able to record 

 this from the second known Maine station, having collected it on a wet 

 springy slope at Charleston, July 4, 1905. This was the only form 

 growing in this locality. 



Iva ciliafa Willd. This does not apj)ear to be recorded from Maine. 

 Several plants were growing in a dump near Bangor and were collected 

 by Mr. F. M. Billings and my.self on October (>, 1905, at which time 

 they were just in bloom. 



