CATALOGUE OF PLANTS. 95 



pubescent; flowers half or less the size of those of B. villosus ; 

 fruit small, dry, and "seed3^" Woods, Southwest Valley road 

 (Rand). 



R. Canadensis, L. Low Blackberry. Dewberry. 

 Dry fields and roadsides; frequent. 



R. hispidus, L. Running Swamp Blackberry. 



Low grounds and by waysides; common. 

 R. setosus, Bigel. 



Stouter than B. his2ndus, larger leaved, suberect or ascend- 

 ing, the older wood most densely clothed with slender, stiff, 

 slightly reflexed bristles; not evergreen; flowers usually small; 

 fruit reddish black, about 3" high; leaflets mostlj' acute, or 

 short acuminate, generally 5 on the leaves of the sterile shoots, 

 and 3 on the flowering branches, short petiolulate or sessile; 

 pedicels and petioles often with a few weak bristles, pubescent. 

 (See N. L. Britton in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xx. 278, whence 

 the above description is mainly taken.) Not uncommon. Somes- 

 ville; Beech Cliff; Oak Hill (Rand). 



DALIBARDA, L. 

 D. repens, L. 



Woods; common. Fertile flowers mainly, if not entirely, 

 cleistogamous, appearing rather earlier than the more showy 

 flowers. (See T. Meehan, Proceedings Acad. Nat. Sciences of 

 Phila., 1892, p. 371.) 



GEUM, L. AvENS. 

 G. album, Gmelin. 



Thickets; rare. Wasgatt Cove (Wm. H. Dunbar); — Somes- 

 ville (Rand); — near Somesville (Arnold Greene). 



G. strictum, Ait. 



Rare. Somesville (Rand). Perhaps introduced. 

 G. rivale, L. Water Avens. 



Common in wet fields and meadows in the north and west of 

 the Island. Also Long Pond meadows (Redfield) ; — meadow at 

 Schooner Head (Robert B. Worthington) ; — Cold Brook (Rand). 



