1908] Blanchard,— Identity of Rubus Canadensis 119 
I found it around Sherbrooke, Richmond and Victoriaville, and 
some at Lyster, which is twenty miles southwest of Quebec. Beyond 
Sherbrooke all forms of Rubus except R. strigosus Michx. become 
rather scarce and people are not troubled with "briars." R. strigo- 
sus, however, I found as far north as I went. Some peculiar black- 
berries grew a few miles north of the citadel at Quebec but I found 
none there that I khew. 
From Quebec I took a continuous car-ride to Roberval on Lake St. 
John. At Lake Edward, eighty miles north of Quebec, while the 
train was waiting for the hunters to get off, I found a blackberry that 
has considerable resemblance to the specimen,of Linnæus figured by 
Prof. Bailey, but this was the only one I saw in Canada. 
It may be of interest to botanists to know, and it was a great surprise 
to me to find, that on both sides of the railroad as far as one can see, 
from Riviére à Pierre Junction to Lake St. John, a distance of about 
one hundred miles, the land has been burned over so often that nothing 
grows there apparently except "fire-weeds." There is also a border 
at least thirty miles wide all around the lake that has had a similar fate. 
A small tract on the lake at Roberval was cleared on the occasion of the 
first fire and has escaped that baptism, and here I was able to learn 
something of the flora of this northern region. I expected to see it 
as Michaux saw it, and but for fires it would be nearly the same. 1 
found no blackberries here. 
At Three Rivers good R. Canadensis was found and also at Kaza- 
bazua, forty miles north of Ottawa, but R. Alleghaniensis is evidently 
the prevailing species of the immediate valleys of the St. Lawrence and 
Ottawa rivers from Three Rivers to Ottawa. Crossing into New 
York at Brockville at the foot of the Thousand Islands, I found very 
good В. Canadensis at Oswego on the Oswego River, and also at 
Rochester, and at McLean about fifteen miles northeast of Ithaca. 
Going through the Adirondacks I found it abundant at Fulton Chain, 
scattering at Saranac Lake and at Lake Placid, and quite abundant. 
from North Elba till I began to descend into the Ausable valley in 
Keene. 
"There now seems to be no good reason to doubt.that the specimen 
with oval-ovate leaflets which Linnæus certainly used in writing his: 
description should be regarded as the tvpe of the species and that we 
know the plant; while his specimen with cuneate leaflets was probably 
a sport or an intergrade, or possibly a form of limited range. Were 
