434 BLANCHARD: RUBUS OF EASTERN NorTH AMERICA 
hybrid. His two illustrations on pages 315 and 317 in Evolution 
of our Native Fruits, also reproduced in the Cyclopaedia of 
American Horticulture, are probably of this species. They give 
but a poor idea of the species, however. The halftone is poorly 
made from a poor specimen, and the etching is intended to show 
only the fruit. The characters of this species, in fact, are as good 
and as constant as those of any other; it is exactly the same in 
Michigan as in Massachusetts; and it is found at least one hundred 
miles from any station of the dewberry. Its range is from western 
Maine to Iowa. It is common or frequent throughout most of 
New England west of the Kennebec River, and I have collected 
it in Ottawa, Canada; Plattsburg, Oswego, and Rochester, New 
York; in many places in and around Ann Arbor and Lansing, 
Michigan; and at Mason City and Ames, Iowa. 
RUBUS CUNEIFOLIUS Pursh 
This species was first described by Walter, in his Flora Caro- 
liniana, in 1788, as R. parvifolius, but his name had already 
been used and it takes Pursh’s more descriptive name, which he 
gave it in 1814. The description of it given by Pursh was im- 
proved on by Elliott in 1822. Its range is from the Connecticut 
River in Connecticut to the Mississippi River and perhaps beyond. 
In going south from Louisville, Kentucky, I found it first at 
Decatur, Alabama. In Florida it seemed to be the common 
“briar.’”’ In some places it seems to intergrade with R. Andrewsia- 
nus. Suggestive figures are given by Bailey in connection with his 
writings on Rubus. 
In addition to these there are some others with a range great 
enough to be of interest to botanists generally. An important 
one is 
Rubus FRONDOsUs Bigelow 
This species, which I resurrected from seeming oblivion in 
1906, is found from Boston to Washington, in a strip bounded by 
the ocean on one side and a line marked by the following stations 
on the other side: Clinton, Mass.; Hartford, Conn.; Lancaster, 
Pa.; and Fairfax, Va. Bigelow described it in 1824. The 
announcement of the refinding of this lost species and a short 
