1906] Blanchard,— Some Maine Rubi,— II 175 



long and 7 in. wide, quite thick, leathery; deep dark green, perfectly 

 glabrous and very smooth on the upper surface; lighter but not more 

 yellow and very glabrous and smooth beneath. Sometimes a few 

 appressed hairs above and on the veins beneath. Leaflets narrowly 

 oval, often appearing obovate, cuneate at the base, the upper ones 

 stalked, outline entire, long taper-pointed, shallowly sometimes doubly 

 serrate or slightly serrate-dentate; the middle one twice as long as 

 wide, the others about three times as long as wide. Petiole and peti- 

 olules stout, grooved, glabrous, glandless, or the petiolules slightly 

 pubescent, prickles numerous, very slender and hooked, the petiolule 

 of the middle leaflet f in. long, the side ones one-third as long, and 

 the basal leaflets nearly sessile. 



Old canes. Erect as ever, brown, ])rickles not intact, points gone, 

 stem often nearly smooth. New growth consisting entirely of leafy 

 fruit branches, 3 in. long at the top of the cane and 10 in. long at the 

 base each tipped with inflorescence. Axis irregularly angled, zigzag, 

 glabrous Avith a few very small and very weak prickles, glandless. 

 Leaves few, 3-foliate or some upper ones unifoliate; the leaflets long, 

 narrow, pointed, cuneate and nearly entire at the base, serrate or 

 serrate-dentate, rather thick, dark green and glabrous above, lighter 

 green beneath, the middle one short-stalked, the unifoliate leaves 

 similar, or often very broad and deeply 3-lobed. One strong branch 

 from each old leaf axil, or nearly as often especially below, two or 

 more slender ones with less inflorescence, generally very zigzag, one 

 often blossoming late; the whole second year's growth angular, 

 irregular, mixed and. unique. Inflorescence glandless, of rather reg- 

 ular racemes, 1 to 2 in. long, with finely pubescent axis and 8 to 12 

 short, stout, finely pubescent pedicels set at varying angles to the axis 

 and subtended by large, conspicuous and leaflike bracts. Also much 

 smaller and irregular inflorescence on lower branches and secondary 

 branches above. Flowers, appearing the first week in July and con- 

 tinuing two weeks on late branches, rather large, 1^ to IJ in. broad, 

 petals f in. long by y% in. wide, oval, oblong-oval, or obovate. Fruit 

 ripe Aug. 15, irregularly globose, com])osed of 3 to 20 large drupelets 

 each ^Y, iji- i'^ diameter or often larger, a nice fruit being 9^ sixteenths 

 in. in diameter with 21 drupelets. 



Type stations: Saco Road Methodist Church at Arundel depot, 

 Kennebunk])ort, Maine, and on Main Street, Kennebunkport village 

 at the guideboard to Cape Porpoise by the sea road. Abundant in 

 Kennebunk and Kennebunkport. Dry ground, open sun or light 

 shade. 



This species as summarized in the opening paragraph has little 

 resemblance to any other species of high blackberry and forms a class 

 by itself. 



' , * * Canes recurving and tipping. 



-I— Leaves pubescent; stems little prostrate. 



