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tions are favorable. At only one place was there any indication 
of the plant having crossed a stream, and this may prove to bea 
separate colony. - 
That the box huckleberry is of interest to others besides botanists 
is shown by the numerous attempts on the part of nurserymen and 
others to transplant or grow the plant from seed, because of its 
brilliant evergreen foliage. These attempts for the most part have 
met with failure.—H. A. Warp, Sec. of Harrisburg Natural History 
Society, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 
Rusus RECURVICAULIS Blanchard, var. armatus n. var., pedi- 
cellis setosis, setis acicularibus. 
Pedicels with bristly setae.—Newfoundland, Miquelon and Cape 
Breton. NEWFOUNDLAND: sandy and gravelly banks, with the 
typical form, Whitbourne, August 8, 1911, Fernald & Wiegand, no. 
5711 (rvPE in Gray Herb.): sandy and gravelly shores, Whitbourne, 
no. 5710 (in part); gravelly brookside, Brigus Junction, August 5, 
1911, Fernald & Wiegand, no. 5709. MiQvukELow: dry soil, Colline 
du Chapeau, Aug. 21, 1882, Delamare. Cape Breton: bog at 
Grand Lake, Sydney, July 31, 1904, J. R. Churchill. 
In its bristly inflorescence strongly simulating R. tardatus Blanch- 
ard, which occurs from Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia to 
Cape Cod, but with the leaflets broader and rounded at base as in 
typical R. recurvicaulis, which occurs with var. armatus and to which 
it intergrades: with prickles on the canes sparse as in R. recurvicaulis, 
not crowded as in R. tardatus; and with the pedicels glandless as in 
R. recurvicaulis, not glandular as in R. tardatus. 
M. L. FEnNALD, Gray Herbarium. 
Vol. 22, no. 261, including pages 144 to 156 and portrait plate, was issued 
29 October, 1920. 
