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common dewberry which will no doubt be introduced 

 into cultivation in the course of time. The features 

 of the species have not been closely studied by bot- 

 anists. I cannot forbear, in passing, to speak of one 

 very promising form which I have collected in the 

 drifting sand upon the banks of Lake Michigan, in 



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Fig. 76. Rubus villosus var. Michiganensit. 



southwestern Michigan. This is a very leafy and 

 vigorous, long-running plant, which produces large 

 globular -oblong fruits of excellent quality, and which 

 seems to be distinguished from all other dewberries in 

 the very deep and sharp, irregular teeth of the leaves. 

 (Fig. 76.) In my herbarium, Professor Card has named 

 this plant Rubus villosus var. Michiganensis (seep. 374). 



