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is then verv^goocl eating. It is highly probable that culti- 

 vation might develop a valuable berry from this. 



There is a distinct form growing with this at consid- 

 erable elevations which has so great a resemblance to it 

 that it seems best to call it a variety of it, and species- 

 makers are requested to lei it rest as such. From its shin- 

 ing green leaves it seems to ask to be named, 



Var. viridifolius, n. var. Thvs plant generally has 

 more slender canes than the species, the Dristle-pointed 

 prickles are much smaller, weaker, and twice as numerous, 

 wihle there is an abundance r.f stalked, reddish glands 

 among them. The leaves are very dark green, shining, 

 thinner and more finely' serrate-dentate. The stalked 

 glands show on the old canes which are more often pros- 

 trate. The flowers are generally smaller, with the petals 

 seemingly wider in proportion to length. The reddish, 

 stalked glands are numerous on the calyx and upper part 

 of the pedicels. Width of flower from three-fourths to one 

 and one-eighth inches. Petals three-eighths to one-half 

 inch long, and fully half as wide. There are scattered, 

 weak bristles on the fruit branches, peduncles and pedicels. 

 Having a weaker cane, it is more often prostrate, more 

 often a "running blackberry." 



The two iDlackberries described in this article are 

 equally at home in sun or light shade, in thickets or 

 around stone-piles. They blossom a little later than the 

 needle l^lackberr}', sow-teat blackberr3'- or the mountain 

 blackberry {Rubus Canadensis L.). The flowers are very 

 showy, being of fair size and very numerous, rivalling 

 Ruhus Canadensis which is par excellence our flowering 

 blackberr^^ 



These blackberries were included under the blanket 

 name of R. argutus, var. Randii, Bailey, in the Vermont 

 Flora of 1900. The compilers of that flora have just 

 published in Rhodora (June, 1904,) an Addenda to it 

 w^hich contains a new^ name tor a blackberry, R. nigricans^ 

 Ryd., v^hich probably was intended to include those here 

 named. This name was intended to take the place of 



