1907] Blanchard,— Connecticut Rubi 9 
canes. Inflorescence a short raceme; pedicels slender, pubescent, 
often branched; bearing as well as the calyx a few glanded hairs or 
weak bristles, one or both or neither. Flowers most often appearing 
late, about 1 in. broad, petals long and narrow, two or three times as 
long as wide. Fruit poor, of a few drupelets, or sometimes maturing 
as fine globose berries 4 in. in diameter. 
Type station: The sand plains of Plainville and Southington, 
Connecticut. An abundant plant in Southern New England, growing 
mostly on dry ground and especially on sandy soil. 
This plant is readily distinguished from R. setosus Bigelow into 
which it probably intergrades by having hard stems with comparatively 
few bristles and no glands, and in having the inflorescence nearly 
naked, the leaves, fruit and flowers on each being much alike. 
Rubus ascendens, n. sp. Plants erect, 2 to 4 feet high, sometimes 
branched, angled; prickles numerous, rather strong; glandless or 
with a few glands on the inflorescence; leaves on new canes 5-foliate, 
often upward-turned; leaflets long-pointed, ovate or oval; flowers 
late; fruit small, often valuable. 
New canes. Stems erect, 2 to 4 feet high, generally angled, green 
or reddish, hard, glabrous and glandless, often branched. Prickles 
numerous, 15 to 20 to the inch of stem, slender and spiny or strong 
bristle-prickles, often 43; in. long with a slight backward slant. Leaves 
often large, 5-foliate, of firm texture, dark yellow-green and nearly 
glabrous on the upper surface, paler and somewhat pubescent, often 
quite pubescent below. Leaflets ovate or oval, often broad, long 
taper-pointed, outline entire, serrate or serrate-dentate; the middle 
one widest and rounded often cuneate at the base, the others narrower 
and cuneate. Petiole and petiolules large, grooved, slightly pubescent 
with slender retrorse prickles, the petiolule of the middle leaflet about 
1 in. long, the side leaflets short-stalked and the basal ones sessile. 
Old canes. Stems green or green-red, prickles little impaired. 
New growth consisting of leafy fruit branches, 4 to 12 in. long gener- 
ally one from each old leaf-axil. Axis of branch zigzag, slender, 
weakly armed, nearly glabrous. Leaves 3-foliate below, the upper 
unifoliate; leaflets wide or narrow, in color, texture and pubescence 
like those on new canes. Inflorescence a short raceme; pedicels 
slender, pubescent, otherwise naked or on many plants clothed with 
more or less weak bristles or glanded hairs one or both, with or without 
subtending unifoliate leaves or bracts. Flowers appearing rather 
