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over stone walls, rocks, roadsides, and pasture 

 lands, and contrasting with the yellow of the 

 Golden-rod and the blue of the Aster, are im- 

 portant factors in the autumnal color scheme. 

 The Rubus villosus, that was named and 

 described in 1789, has long been taken by bot- 



Low Running Blackberry (Rubus villosus) 



anists to be the High-bush Blackberry. In 

 1898, Bailey, after personally examining the 

 specimens described by Alton as Rubus villo- 

 sus, decided that they were specimens, not of 

 the High Blackberry but of the northern Low 

 Blackberry or Dewberry. To this plant, then, 

 the name Rubus villosus rightfully belongs. 



" For my taste the blackberry-cone, 

 Purpled over hill and stone." 



— Whittier's Barefoot Boy. 



