206 Rhodora [NOVEMBER 
no one who had ever seen more than a single bush or who regarded it 
otherwise than as a curiosity. 
The plant which I found grew in a partially cleared woodland 
which contained an abundance of the common high blackberry, but 
careful search revealed no other bush of the a/5/mws variety. The 
white berries are reported as having been seen in a mountain pasture 
two or three miles from where I found this bush and in the adjoining 
town of Chesterfield. 
As I could find no report of any such blackberry in the works of 
reference which I had at hand, I wrote to Harvard inquiring if any 
record had been made of them. I was requested to send some of 
the fruit for preservation at the Botanical Museum at Cambridge, with 
some of the leaves and stem for use at the Gray Herbarium. The plant 
was identified as the one described by Professor Bailey as the albinus 
variety of Rubus nigrobaccus, but not hitherto reported from New 
England. 
The fruit in alcohol has been deposited on the shelves of the Bot- 
anical Museum, and the fruit together with the stem and leaves pre- 
served at the Gray Herbarium. "The bush has been carefully marked 
and effort will be made to secure some of the flowers another season. 
ADVENTITIOUS PLANTS OF DROSERA. 
ROBERT G. LEAVITT. 
(Plate 10.) 
THE propagation of Drosera filiformis, D. binata and D. dichotoma 
from cut leaves was noted by Mr. Ames in the September RHODORA. 
From leaves placed in sphagnum August 5, new plants were first ob- 
served August 26. These shoots, the „present aspect of which merits a 
note, have reached a point at which the leaves first produced and those 
characteristic of the species are seen standing together and offering in 
the same plantlet marked contrasts, as well as gradations, of form. The 
peculiarities may be gathered from the accompanying plate. 
Figures 1—4 represent, enlarged, the young condition of D. binata. In 
1 we have a shoot with the first six leaves, all orbicular and indistinguish- 
able except in size from those of D. rotundifolia (fig. 6). Leaf 4a is 
rotund, 2 is later and sub-triangular, 3 later still and obreniform, 42, c and 
d succeeding forms; 4, though small, is practically the full character 
leaf. Fig. 5 represents the first five leaves (enlarged) of D. filiformis. 
