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bristles and hairs on the peduncles, pedicels, and calyx are tipped 

 with glands. R. Idaeiis var. anomalus, judging from the specimen 

 in hand, is a stocky plant with gray bark covered with very 

 numerous, long, straight bristles, while the petioles, peduncles, 

 pedicels, and calyx are similarly covered with glandless bristles. 

 It is interesting here to note that in the opinion of Mr. Fernald 

 this absence of glands in R. Idacus is the character which best 

 distinguishes R. Idacus from R. strigosns. 



Mr. Eggleston's plant according to Mr. Fernald's general view 

 should be treated as an intergrading variety between R. Idacus 

 var. anovialus and R. Idacus var. strigosus. This would make 

 from the four forms of red raspberries now known one species 

 and three varieties. The writer prefers to regard R. strigosus 

 as a distinct species. Mr. Eggleston's plant may be properly 

 treated either as a variety of R. strigosus or as a distinct species. 

 The prevailing custom among American botanists is to make so 

 distinct a plant a species and it is here so treated. The European 

 dwarf has been so considered. This gives us four species ; R. 

 Idacus L., R. Lcesii Babbington, R. strigosus Michx. and 



Rubus Egglestonii sp. nov. 



Allied to R. strigosus Michx., the bark, prickles, flowers, and 

 fruit being very similar; plants glandular, dwarfish, about one foot 

 high ; leaves small, rounded, coarsely crenate-dentate, one to one 

 and one-half inches broad, trifoliolate with rounded, sessile leaf- 

 lets on new canes and varying from unlobed to deeply lobed on 

 old canes ; inflorescence very scant, consisting of two- to four- 

 flowered slender racemes. 



Type collected by Mr. W. W. Eggleston in Cavendish, Ver- 

 mont, June 9, 1900. 



It is possible that this is a mere sport but not at all probable, 

 and botanists may well be watching for it in other places, espe- 

 cially far to the north where it may reasonably be expected to 

 be not rare. 



