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in mowings and in other neglected places. In dry, sunny, well- 

 fed pastures and in other similar situations, the epidermis and its 

 appendages are a deep red, while in tall grass or light shade they 

 are often very green. It spreads widely by tipping, and the new 

 plants thus originated as well as the new stems of old plants are 

 at first veiy highly colored, very thick, fleshy, and bristly. 



Whether this plant originated as a hybrid or as a mutant, 

 whether it is a direct creation or is to be explained by one or 

 more of the hypotheses sure to be invented in great profusion in 

 the future, I shall not discuss ; but it is here and seems to be as 

 good a species and as well worthy of a name as any rose, knot- 

 weed, aster, golden-rod or oak with which I am acquainted. 



The second plant to which attention is invited is a leafy high 

 blackberry. This is erect, strong and stocky, glandular and 

 pubescent, and the old canes are very leafy, especially when 

 somewhat killed back on rank-growing canes. The appearance 

 of the plant in dry and in rich moist situations but a few rods 

 apart is considerably different. It may be named with good 

 reason 



^ Rubus frondisentis sp. nov. Leafy Bramble 



Plants with a great abundance of large, stalked glands. 



New canes. — Stems erect, never reaching the ground, three to 

 five feet high, stocky, soft, often branched, more or less pentagonal 

 and often slightly furrowed, with remarkably numerous stalked 

 glands. Prickles weak but not bristly, varying much in size, the 

 larger mostly on the angles, the smaller set at random, less than 

 three-sixteenths of an inch long, straight with a slight backward 

 slant. Leaves of fair size, seven inches long and wide, not thin, 5- 

 foliolate, yellow-green above with white appressed hairs, lighter 

 below and quite pubescent and velvety to the touch. Leaflets 

 broadly ovate, pointed, finely and doubly serrate-dentate, outline 

 otherwise entire, rounded at the base, the middle leaflet over one- 

 half as wide as long, sometimes cordate, the others narrower. 

 Petiole and petiolules grooved above, very glandular, prickles 

 fine, weak and recurved, the petiolule of the middle leaflet one 

 inch long, those of the side ones one-half inch long, the basal 

 ones short. 



Old canes. — Erect, prickles and glandular covering somewhat 

 impaired. Second year's growth consisting normally of thick, 



