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Vor. humifusus, T. ct. G. 



^^^)u(:ls and river banks. Favette: near Nuttalllnirg 

 — L. W. N. 



V(tr. frondosus, Turr. 



Fayette : near XiittalUmrg— L. W. X. Preston : ne.U" 

 Tunnellton. 



E,. Millspaughi, Biitt. 



Tliis species was descrilied in "The Bulletin of the 

 Torry Club" for 1891, page 366, as follows: 



"Ascending, wand-like, entirely unarmed or Avith a 

 "very few weak prickles above, glal)rous throughout or the 

 "younger shoots scurfy pubescent. Stems one and one-half 

 "to four meters long; leaves long petioled, pedately o-foliate 

 "or some of those on the twigs 3-foliate ; leaflets thin, oval, 

 "glabrous on both sides, long-acuminate at the apex, mostly 

 "rounded at the base, 12-15 cm. long, about 5 cm. wide, 

 "sharply, but not deeply serrate; stock of the terminal leaf- 

 "let 7-10 cm. long; inflorescence loosely racemose; bracts 

 "linear-lanceolate ; acuminate ; fruit black, about 10 mm. 

 "long." 



"Nearest to R. villosus, but evidently a distinct S}tc- 

 cies. Curiously enough there is a leaf of this species glued 

 down on the sheet of R. Canadensis, L in herb Linn., and it 

 appears to have been included in his description of that s})e- 

 cies — the specimens furnished by Kalm." 



Near the summit of Point Mountain in, Randolph 

 county at an altitude of 3,500 ft., also along the Gandy in 

 great profusion. Pendleton and Pocahontas : on Little Rich 

 Mountains abundant. The mountaineersclaimthatit is upon 

 this species that the bears grow fat for their period of hiber- 

 nation, the fruit being late to rij)en and very nutritious. 



R. Canadensis, L. Dewberry. L. W. N., V. M., M. c^- G. 



Aliundant on dry hillsides throughout the State. 



V((i: roribaCCUS, Bailey. Leucretia Dewberry. 



Dry liillsides. Randolph: near Beverly. 



This new variety of the sjjecies is besci-ilied by I'rof. 

 Bailey in the American Garden, November, 1890, as follows: 

 "Plant larger and stronger; leaflets broad below, usually tri- 

 angular-ovate, doubly serrate with small teeth, and more or 

 less notched and jagged; ])eduncles longer, straighter and 

 stouter, hal)ituously more numerous and more conspicuously 

 overto])ping the leaves ; flowers very large (some times two 

 inches across); sepals uniforndy larger, some of them much 

 ))rolonged and leaf-like and cons})icuously lobed (some times 

 becoming an inch long and wide) ; fruit much larger." 



