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Annapolis Valley. It is very constant in form, and I have seen 
no tendency to vary, which, in an abundant blackberry is very 
unusual. 
Rubus glandicaulis, also very distinct, has a wide range. It is 
frequent throughout southern Maine as far north as Brownville 
and Bangor, and in southwestern New Brunswick to Frederickton 
Junction, and occurs in Nova Scotia. This, or forms close to it, 
I have collected on Lake Winnepesaukee, New Hampshire, and 
at Lenoxville, Province of Quebec. 
Rubus multiformis is a species that is somewhat variable, and 
occurs from southwestern Maine to Sydney, Cape Breton Island. 
Throughout this long stretch it is the only trailing blackberry 
that you often see except R. hispidus. Its shining green 5-foliolate 
leaves, the leaflets long and very narrow, are very noticeable. 
Rubus recurvicaulis ranges from Marblehead, Massachusetts, 
to Bar Harbor, Maine. On Mt. Desert Island it is very abundant 
and I collected what is probably this species near Halifax, Nova 
Scotia. Prof. M. L. Fernald regards this as the true Rubus Randi 
(Bailey) Rydb. in Gray's New Manual. It is impossible to tell, 
as the original specimens are manifestly aberrant no matter what 
they are. Nothing matches them and all sorts of odd things have 
been thrown into R. Randii covers. But R. recurvicaulis is-a 
very distinct species. I have visited Mr. Rand’s stations, using a 
large scale map on which he marked them and with directions 
orally and carefully given me, but I found nothing at one station 
and something very different, but odd, at the other. Unless Mr. 
Rand himself rediscovers his stations and gets better material, 
his species cannot be maintained. No R. recurvicaulis was found 
in the neighborhood of his stations though I took much pains to 
examine. My chief object in spending so much time there (over 
a week) was to clear up R. Randit if possible. 
There are undoubtedly many local species of blackberries in 
our area. Most of them will never be described, or if they are 
will soon be forgotten. There is a practical as well as scientific 
side to systematic botany. The world will not bother with an 
interminable number of species in a genus. The way that Gan- 
doger is ignored and Rafinesque was ridiculed shows it. The 
number of species in A ster, Crataegus, Rosa, Rubus, etc., must have 
