38 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 



One of the plants all powerful to summon up half sleep- 

 ing memories of loved spots and dear companions, is the 

 flowering- raspberry {Rubus odoratus). Growing as it does 

 on our lower mountains, like Wachusett or Monadnock, the 

 Catskills and Hudson highlands, or around the bases of some 

 of the higher ones like the White Mountains, it is naturally as- 

 sociated with scenes of uncommon beauty. To the writer it 

 recalls his childhood home, West Point and fond recollections 

 of those long departed. When one lands at Highland Falls 

 about a mile from West Point, his attention is arrested by a 

 stupendous cliff upon the summit of which is perched Lady 

 Cliff Academy — a Catholic girls' school. The road up to the 

 village is embowered in beautiful shrubs and trees and her- 

 bage. There grow magnificent tulip trees and native lindens, 

 birches, maples and other deciduous trees. There too, one sees 

 the bladder pod, with very pretty flowers in spring, followed 

 later by the inflated pods that children love to pop. Lower than 

 these, appearing as bushes three to five feet in height, are the 

 flowering raspberries with ample, maple-like leaves and 

 corymbs of rose-purple flowers — resembling, and almost as 

 large as, wild roses. The stems and petioles are clothed with 

 interlaced rufous hairs and the flowers are succeeded by large, 

 red, attractive-looking, but poor, insipid-tasting, berries. The 

 plant seems to satisfy itself when it produces such showy 

 flowers. The black raspberry or thimble-berry shows the op- 

 posite condition. One can scarcely find the flowers but the 

 fruits are large and luscious. 



In the far West grows another species strikingly like 

 Rubus odoratus but with white flowers. It is R. Nuttallii. 

 The thought of it always brings back to me my first day's 

 botanizing on the Sierra Nevada. It was when I was with the 

 U. S. Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel under 

 Clarence King. We went into camp at Alta on the western 



