146 Rhodora [August 



Southwestern Colorado, Texas, Arizona and northern Lower 

 California. 

 (id. Sphenophohs interrupta californica (Vasey) Scribn. n. comb. 

 Trisetum calijornicum \"a.sey, 1S93. 

 Texas. 

 7. Sphenopholis Hallii Scribn. n. coml>. 

 Trisetum Hallii Scribn. 1884. 

 Texas. 



U. S. Department of Agriculture, 



Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C. 



SOME MAINE RUBI. THE BLACKBERRIES OF THE 

 KEXXEBUXKS AXD WELLS.— I. 



W. H. BlAX( HARD. 



Ix this and in papers to follow are given the results o{ a careful and 

 persistent study of the blackberries of Kunnebunk, Kennebunkport 

 and Wells, three adjoining sea-coast towns in Southwestern Maine, 

 well-known summer resorts. The time given to this study was two 

 weeks in August, 1904, and all the time from June 24 till Se])t. 10, 

 1905, except one week in August spent in Connecticut. Kennebunk 

 village was headquarters, and the steam and electric railroads made it 

 comparatively easy to reach all ])arts of the section. 



Much of the soil is sandy with outcropj)ing rocks. Woods pre- 

 dominate made impenetrable by hospitable mosquitoes, while the 

 highways are made dangerous by inhospitable automobilists. Many 

 White Mountain and high northern plants such as Asler radula, Ait., 

 are common, while no such j^lants as the Black Raspberry, Desmo- 

 diums or Lespedi-zas ajjpear. A few miles north the normal flora 

 of this latitude begins to be seen. 



But five of the blackberries of Vermont and Connecticut were found: 

 Ruhus Allegheniensis, Porter {R. nigrnbarrus, Bailey and R. villosiis, 

 of Gray's Manual) the common high blackberry of the north-east 

 which is often very poor here; R. recurvans, Blanchard here perfectly 

 at home; R. prorumbens, Muhl. {R. canadensis of Gray's IManual); 

 and innumerable forms of R. hispid us, L. and R. setosiis, Bigelow 

 (R. nigricans, Ryd.). The edible forms of blackberries excejjt in 



