172 Rhodora ■ * " ■ [September 



and close racemes ending more or less leafy branches. It seems to 

 prefer localities not far from streams and winter-kills badly, sending 

 out an abundance of long leafy branches tipped with late flowers. 

 It bore abundantly in 1904 but in 1905 the crop was a failure. 



-)--)--♦- Inflorescence a short raceme with slender equal pedicels. 



Rubus glandicaulis, n. sp. Plants very erect, pubescent, and all 

 parts except the leaf blades thickly covered with stalked glands. 

 Inflorescence a very regular raceme with long thread-like pedicels. 

 Fruit cylindrical with rather small dru})elets. 



New caues'. Stems strong, thick, very erect, 3 to G feet high, or 

 often dwarfish, dark red, often branched, remarkably glandular, 

 5-angled and slightly furrowed. Prickles \ in. long, 10 to 15 to the 

 inch of stem, straight, backward slant slight, set in lines on the angles. 

 Leaves large on strong plants 8 in. long by 7 in. wide, average smaller, 

 nearly coriaceous when mature, rather thin; on the upper surface 

 shining dark yellow-green with a])j)ressed hairs but very smooth to 

 the touch; velvety beneath with abundant short pubescence. Leaflets 

 nearly oval, the three U])per stalked, outline entire, long taper-pointed; 

 finely and slightly doubly serrate and serrate-dentate; the middle 

 one broad, rounded at the base, sometimes ovate, rarely nearly cordate, 

 two thirds as wide as long; the side ones oval, twice as long as wide; 

 the basal leaflets similar in sha})e but smaller. Petiole and j)etiolules 

 yellow, stout, groovetl; jirickles stout, hooked, numerous, in lines; 

 covered thickly with stalked glands; jiroper pubescence little or none; 

 the ])etiolule of the middle leaflet 1 in. long, the side ones ^ in. long, 

 the basal leaflets sessile. 



Old cane.s'. Erect as ever, prickles and stalked glands often much 

 broken. Normally ])yramidal in outline, the second year's growth 

 consisting of nearly naked racemes at the top of the cane, these suc- 

 ceeded by racemes leafy at the base, and below these long leafy branches 

 often destitute of inflorescence and resembling new canes. U])per 

 racemes 4 to 6 in. long; axis straight, terete, very pubescent and 

 glandular; prickles few straight and slender; pedicels 8 to Ki, slender, 

 thread-like, very pubescent and glandular, set at an angle of about 

 45° to the axis, 1 in. long, subtended by small bracts; at the base of 

 the raceme a few small trifoliate and unifoliate leaves, the leaflets 

 about 1 in. long. The lowest branches often over 1 ft. long; axis 

 nearly terete, yellow, zigzag, pubescent, glandular; prickles few and 

 weak. Leaves 3-foliate, the leaflets broad-oval; tho.se at the end of 

 the branch 5-foliate, leaflets narrow; petiole and petiolules slender, 

 pubescent and glandular, prickles slender; in color, texture, pubes- 

 cence and serration similar to those on new canes. Intermediate 

 branches increasing regularly in length and leafiness downwards, the 

 amount of inflorescence <lecreasiiig slightly, the leaflets on these 

 branches long and narrow. Normally one axis from each old leaf- 



