1906] Blanchard, Some Maine Rubi, — I 149 



rather thick, normally 5-foliate manv 3-foliate. shining light yellow- 

 green with appressed hairs on the upper surface, whitish with long 

 appressed pubescence on the veins below, ciliate. Leaflets oval, 

 outline broadly jagged, generally regularly so, short taper-])ointed, 

 very coarsely and doubly serrate and serrate-dentate, entire at the base; 

 the middle leaflet very broad; the side leaflets one-half as wide as 

 long, cuneate at both ends; the basal ones similar but much smaller. 

 Petiole and petiolules stout, glandless, nearly glabrous, green, grooved; 

 prickles few, stout, hooked; the ])etiolule of the middle leaflet ^ in. 

 long, the side ones very short, and the basal leaflets sessile. 



Old cane.s. Considerably killed back, prickles somewhat broken. 

 Second year's growth consisting of erect branches or stemlets 4 to 10 

 in. long, generally one from each old leaf axil, all bearing inflorescence. 

 Axis somewhat zigzag, irregularly angled, green, glandless, slightly 

 pubescent; prickles few, small, slender, generally hooked. Leaves 

 large, 3-foliate, those of the inflorescence unifoliate; in color, texture 

 and pubescence like those on the new canes. Leaflets and unifoliate 

 leaves similar, oval, short-pointed at each end, coarsely and somewhat 

 doubly serrate-dentate. Petiole and petiolules green, grooved, faintly 

 pubescent; prickles few and small, hooked; the petiolule of the middle 

 leaflet less than \ in. long, the side ones sessile. Inflorescence one to 

 five green erect pedicels, 1 to 3 in. long, somewhat pubescent, glandless, 

 subtended by leaves, the lower by the trifoliate, the others by the 

 unifoliate ones. Flowers, ajjpearing late in June, large, 1^ in. broad; 

 petals oval, one-half as wide as long; sepals pubescent or woolly, 

 mucronate. Fruit short-oblong approaching globose, not regular, 

 large and com])osed of the largest (lru])elets, sometimes \ in. in diameter. 

 Four measured and counted: |^ in. high l)y ^\ in. broad, 32 drui)elets 

 each y\ in. in diameter; f in. by f in., 30 drui)elets each \-§ in.; I in. 

 by f in., 23 drujielets each \ in.; y'^ in. h\ -^\ in., 13 drupelets. \'ery 

 edible. Fruiting season from August 1 to Augu.st 15. 



Type stations: Near the railroad station Arundel in Kennebunk- 

 port, Me.; at the springhouse, Grove station in Kennebunk; near 

 the railroad station at West Kennebunk; the ocean bank at Cape 

 Arundel, Kennebunkport op])osite the cottage of Mr. Ogden; and in 

 a pasture near the station at ^Vells Beach. Open, dry ground. Fre- 

 quent in Wells. Kennebunk and Kennelnmkport. 



This large dewberry may l)e worthy of cultivation, but the experi- 

 ence of the writer has been that no dewberry save in exceptional 

 situations and in exceptional years produces much of a crojj. 



-t- H— Prickles straight. 



Rubus plicatifolius, n. sp. Plants entirely prostrate, glandless, 

 slightlv pubescent, j)rickles slender and straight, never hooked; inflo- 

 rescence a raceme with wide-spreading jjedicels, remarkably fruitful, 

 the fruit largelv Iving on the ground from its weight. Leaves large. 



