KANIi's BLACKBERRY 363 



Bigelow's plant, described it in 1891 as Rubus hispidus 

 var. suberectus (Pig. 81 ). Ir bears a rather small black 

 • •r reddish fruit, ripening in July and August, of about 

 the quality <>f the dewberry fruit. The plant is ascend- 

 ing or half erect, the older stems densely clothed with 

 slender but stiff slightly bent prickles. The leaflets 

 are very strongly toothed, nol Bhining as in Rubus Ms- 

 pidus, and also thinner and longer than in that sp< 

 The plant occurs in New York, Pennsylvania and New 

 England. Ir i< aot cultivated. (See page 377 



A Blender and peculiar woods form of the high-bush 

 blackberry, which is Bhown half-size in Fig. 82, is 

 found upon 3It. Desert, coast of Maine, westward and 

 northward, and which [.once named Rubus villosus var. 

 Randii (see Rand and Redfield's "Flora of Mt. Desert 

 [gland," p. ( .'l. 1894 . in compliment to Mr. Edward L. 

 Rand, •win* has been a most energetic explorer of the 

 flora of the interesting island where ir is found. It 

 gives do promise to the cultivator, but the student of 

 our Dative blackberries may like a characterization of 

 it, for the variety is probably widely distributed north- 

 wards. Its chief botanical marks are these : Low and 

 diffuse '1 to '_'_■ feet high), the <-;im-s bearing very 

 few and weak prickles <>r often entirely unarmed, verj 

 slender :ui<l Boft, sometimes looking a> it' Dearly her- 

 ons; leaves very thin and Dearly <>r quite smooth 

 beneath and on the petioles, the teeth rather coarse 

 and anequal : cluster short, with one "i - two Bimple 

 - in it- base, do! villous, and verj >li'_ r litly it al 

 all pubescent ; flowers half <»r less the Bize of tho 

 the blackberry; fruit small, drj ami "seedy." Its chief 

 characters are it< low, weak ami practically unarmed 

 ■terns, tlim I- 1 small flowers (See page 



