1906] Blanchard,— Some Maine Rubi,— II 177 



This species resembles the Recurvans class in the size and shape of 

 the new cane, bnt has a hard stem and strong prickles while the leaves 

 are very hairy and pubescent, the leaflets overlapping, thick and 

 somewhat plicate on the margins. This and the form following may 

 well be considered a distinct class. 



Rubus Jeckylanus, n. sp. Plants very pubescent with occasional 

 stalked glands on the inflorescence, stems nearly terete, hard, recurv- 

 ing and tipping. Leaves thick, leaflets broad, branches of old canes 

 very leafy. 



Nexo canes. Stems thick hard and woody, smooth, glabrous and 

 glandless, nearly terete, 2 to 4 feet high, erect at first then recurving, 

 often tipping, sometimes branched. Prickles slender, strong, \ in. 

 to y^ in. long, slanted slightly backward, about 8 to the inch of stem, 

 set in lines over the angles of the pentagonal pith or on the slight 

 angles of the stem. Leaves o-foliate, o to 7 in. long and wide, thick; 

 yellow-green with appressed hairs but smooth on the upper surface; 

 and whiter and very velvety with abundant long pubescence beneath. 

 Ivcaflets broadly oval or ovate, greatly overlapping, only the middle 

 leaflets noticeably stalked, oudine entire, taper-pointed, singly dentate 

 or serrate-dentate, the teeth long-])ointed; the middle leaflet broadly 

 ovate and cordate; the side ones broad-oval, oblique-angled at the 

 base; the basal ones very broad and wide-angled at the base; the 

 leaflets all being about two-thirds as wide as long. .Petiole and peti- 

 olules large, groovetl, very villous-inibescent, glandless; prickles numer- 

 ous, strong and hooked; the petiolule of the middle leaflet less than 

 1 in. long, the side ones about | in. long, the basal leaflets sessile. 



Old canes. Stems hard to cut, reddish green, prickles intact. 

 Second year's growth polymorphous, consisting of long leafy branches 

 often 12 to IS in. long normally growing near the base of the cane 

 sometimes tipped with inflorescence; short nearly or quite leafless 

 inflorescences from 1 to 3 in. long normally borne toward the end of 

 the cane; and leafy inflorescences situated between the two other 

 kinds; but these three forms and others not described often much 

 mixed, and any form occurring fre(|uently at any point; generally 

 one from the axil of each old leaf, but frequently the first and last 

 occur together. Axis of leafy branch straight or zigzag, angled, 

 pubescent; prickles small, strong, slightly hooked; leaves 3-foliate, 

 large, leaflets broad, mostly oval, the middle leaflet very short-stalked, 

 resembling those on new canes in other respects. Axis of leafy fruit 

 branches thick, straight or zigzag, very villous-pubescent, glandless; 

 prickles small and somewhat hooked; leaves numerous, trifoliate, 

 the upper unifoliate; in color, texture and pubescence like those on 

 new canes; the middle leaflet stalkeJ; leaflets broad-oval, finely or 

 coarsely serrate-dentate, the unifoliate leaves very broad often ap- 

 proaching orbicular; inflorescence short, cymose-corymbose, pedicels 

 very pubescent with often a few stalked glands, 6 or 8, short, set at a 



