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late, 1 in. broad or often broader, petals narrow, twice as long as wide. 
Fruit very variable, often consisting of a few drupelets, frequently 
bearing profuse edible fruit, which is globose, 8 in. or over in diameter. 
Type station: Southington, Connecticut, twenty rods west of the 
railroad bridge over the Qunnipiac River near the Plainville line. 
Abundant in Southington, Bristol, Plainville and neighboring towns 
and in Southern New England generally. 
This species is intended to include not only the plants which closely 
resemble the type, but also many others which cannot be placed with 
any species yet described. They are too large, strong, erect, and 
fruitful as well as too strongly armed to be placed with R. semasetosus. 
‘These characters and the general appearance of the new canes indicate 
the relationship of these plants to the high blackberries especially to 
small forms of R. Andrewsianus. 
R. nmiserpus L. Common. The delicate forms predominate, 
though some peculiar ones occur. A careful examination would 
probably lead to the discovery of a great number. 
Most of the Connecticut Rubi are included in the above enumeration 
but in nearly all localities odd forms are to be found that cannot 
easily be placed. Many of them seem to have no second station. 
Of the peculiar tall forms some have considerable resemblance to 
R. Canadensis L. and R. pergratus Blanchard but both of these species 
are rare so far as known, though there are considerable areas in the 
northeastern and northwestern parts of the state which botanists 
have examined but little where the plants in question may occur in 
greater number and be nearer normal. 
WESTMINSTER, VERMONT. 
Notes on Connecticut PrANTS.— Phaseolus perennis, Walt. 
This species, which was lost sight of by our Connecticut botanists 
for many years, has been reported in recent volumes of RHopora from 
three stations in the southwestern section of the state. Two of these 
stations are near the borders of salt marshes, while the third is adja- 
cent to a "scarcely brackish” marsh. A new station, discovered by me 
Sept. 28, 1906, in the town of Franklin, is of interest as showing the 
species growing under different conditions, and also as extending its 
range sixty miles farther toward the east. This station is twenty 
