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long. It has a half dozen lower leaves, each 12 to 15 inches long, 
and. but 6’’ to 10” wide in the widest parts. The pedicels of the 
flowers in the upper half of the inflorescence are fully 12” long; 
and in the lower half from 6” to 10’... Other herbarium specimens 
examined show flowering pedicels from 2” to 7” long, and fruiting 
pedicels not exceeding 8/’; while the broadest lower leaves vary 
from 12” to 28” broad, though in.one specimen but 7”. 
Only a single specimen of this plant was found by me ina 
hurried and limited search, and no fruit was seen. This may pos- 
sibly be only an extreme form of JZ. latifolium ; or it may prove 
to be a distinct species. It seems to me to be at least a distinct 
variety. Its narrow leaves and very long pedicels give it a strik- 
ingly distinct appearance; and from the latter characteristic 
feature, I call it, provisionally, var. longipedicellatum. 
Appison Brown. 
APRIL Io, 1896. 
Rubus montanus Porter. Since the specific name of this 
Rubus, published in the BuLLETIN, 21: 120, is antedated 
by that of Ortman, it must needs be replaced by another, and 
I can find no better one than A//egheniensis. The species ranges 
from the mountains of New York southward and is everywhere 
known and recognized among the people as the Mountain 
Blackberry. It differs from R. villosus in being less robust 
and tall, but especially in the character of the fruit, which is 
smaller, scarcely fleshy and possessed of a peculiar spicy flavor, 
from 4 to 1 inch or more in length and often oblong and taper- 
ing toward the end in the manner of the little finger. 
Tuos. C. PoRTER. 
Dr. Chapman's Collections —Mr. George W. Vanderbilt has pur- 
chased the large herbarium of southern plants, collected and ar- 
ranged by Dr. Chapman. It will serve as a nucleus for the scien- 
tific collections in connection with the arboretum and Aas easy 
ally managed forest at eee N.C, 
Reviews. 
Plant-breeding. L. H. Bailey. pp. 290, 20 cuts. One is s 
Macmillan & Co., New York. tie coe 
