bullspaugh's blackberby 



Virginia, at an altitude of 3,500 feet. It appears to 

 be specifically distinct from the common buafa black- 

 berry, and it has recently been described as a new 

 species by Dr. Britton under the name of Halms 

 MilhpaugMi (Ball. Torr. Bot. Club, xviii. 366, Dec. 

 1891). I>r. Britton knew no other specimens than 

 those of Millspaugh, exeepl a single leaf <>f it in Lin- 

 na-us' herbarinm, in London, collected by Kalni over 

 a century ago.* I am inclined to think, however, that 

 the Bpecies i> generally distributed over the northeastern 

 Btates. I have recently had good specimens of it from 

 the highest mountains <>t' the Smoky range, North 

 Carolina, above 6,000 Eeet, collected bj Chas. A. Kofoid 

 ami Mr. Beardslee. In Walter Deane's herbarium, at 

 Cambridge, Mass., there is a specimen of it from [ce 

 Gulch, Randolph, X. II. (Whit.- Mountains), collected 

 bj -l. R. Churchill in 1889, and Mr. Deane Bays that 

 there is another specimen in tin- Gray herbarium from 

 the Keweenaw peninsula, Lake Superior, collected by 

 •I. W. Bobbins many years ago. I have had canes "t 

 a perfectly smooth blackberry Bent me from northern 

 Michigan (near Grand Traverse), and I have do doubt 

 that they belong t<> this Bpecies, as tli«' angular ami 

 furrowed, perfectly smooth canes of Rubus Millspaughii 

 art- easily distinguished from those <>t the common 

 blackberry, Prom all these records, it would appear 

 that the Bpecies occurs upon our northern borders, ami 

 that it follows the mountains southwards; ami this 

 accounts t'<>r the finding of the specimen bj Kalm, who 

 traveled in Canada. 



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