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short racemes above, and long leafy branches tipped with inflor- 

 escence below, one from each old leaf-axil ; more often, the stem 

 killing back, two or more leafy fruit-branches from the axils of 

 each old leaf Terminal racemes two to four inches long, very pu- 

 pubescent and glandular, about lo-fruited on short pedicels sub- 

 tended by small bracts and with a few small leaves at the base. 

 No pure leaf-branches yet observed. The branches below four 

 to eight inches long with 3-foliolate leaves. Leaflets broad, yel- 

 low-green, rounded at the base, short-pointed, rather coarsely 

 serrate-dentate, hairy above and pubescent below. Axis seldom 

 terete, prickles few and weak, very pubescent and glandular. 

 Infloresence short, often many of the six to ten pedicels subtended 

 by large bracts or small unifoliate leaves. Flowers from one to 

 one and one-fourth inch broad, petals long-oval, one-half as 

 wide as long. Fruit small, cylindric, one-fourth to three-eighths 

 inch long, black and edible, drupelets rather large, often but few 

 ripening. Flowers the middle of June, fruit ripe early in August. 

 Very little good fruit. 



Type station, Townshend, Windham County, Vermont, in the 

 immediate neighborhood of the brick school house situated near 

 the residence of Deacon J. O. Follett and in his lot adjoining. 



I first noticed this plant July 5, 1902, and have repeatedly 

 visited the type station. Plants quite similar to these grow in 

 three other places in Townshend and I have one station on 

 Bemis Hill in Athens, Vt., a few miles distant. Another station 

 is on Signal Hill, Alstead, N. H. The plants at all these sta- 

 tions differ a little from each other, but even at the type station 

 a difference in soil and surroundings causes a considerable vari- 

 ation. This is to be expected nearly everywhere in the rose 

 family. 



Westminster, Vermont. 



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