86 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 



2% inches ; petiolules 1% inches ; basal leaflets 5V2 by 1% 

 inches, nearly sessile. 



Dr. Millspaugh's observations were made in Randolph, 

 Pendleton and Pocahontas Counties on the high Alle- 

 ghanies. Dr. L. H. Bailey in "Evolution of Our Native 

 Fruits" quotes from a correspondent an account of this 

 blackberry growing on the high mountains of North Car- 

 olina, describing it as tall, unarmed, with long, slender 

 fruit, ripening ver3^ late. It seems to be a profuse bearer, 

 and the fruiting season must be a long one judging from 

 its long flowering one. 



After the bear blackberry had been described, it was 

 noticed or remembered that we had a blackberry at the 

 North which agreed with this description better than with 

 any other, and so our botanists assumed this belonged to 

 the same species. Then Dr. Bailey, w^hile studying Ameri- 

 can berries in European collections, discovered that R. 

 canadensis, L. was not our northern dewberry as every- 

 body had supposed, but w^as a glabrous, unarmed, erect 

 kind which he considered to be the same &.s R. Millspaughi ; 

 and so, R. canadensis, being an older name, has displaced 

 R. Millspaughi. 



But are these northern and southern plants the same? 

 The writer has an intimate acquaintance with the north- 

 ern plant. The bear blackberry appears to be a much 

 taller plant, really unarmed, while ours is not, only com- 

 paratively so, with much larger leaves, broader stipules, 

 shorter infloresence, smaller flowers and more ascending 

 pedicels. The fruit of our form is globose or short oblong, 

 never long and slender. I think w^e have pretty good 

 proof that R. Millspaughi should hold its place as a dis- 

 tinct species. 



Probably some of the readers of The American Bot- 

 anist have some acquaintance with the bear blackberry, 

 and possibly some live w^here it grows. Now is a good 

 time and this journal is a good place to let botanists hear 

 from them. Furthermore, the writer would like to corres- 

 pond with them in regard to it, and obtain specimens 



