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short-cylindric, 0.33 to 0.5 inch long, sweet and abundant; 

 drupelets large and black. Flowers the middle of June, fruit ripe 

 / the middle of August. 



The only stations yet found are on Stephens Hill (type) in the 

 northern part of Windham, in Windham County, Vermont, at an 

 altitude of about 2,000 feet, and in Grafton, Vermont, in the 

 road from Grafton to Londonderry, one mile west of Houghton- 

 ville, at an altitude of 1,500 feet, the stations being about four 

 miles apart. 



I discovered the Windham station for this species in 1903, and 

 in 1904 I made a careful study of it, visiting it many times. It 

 covers at least an acre in a rather dry sheep-pasture to the entire 

 exclusion of other blackberries, though scrub spruces threaten 

 to injure it. It is a profuse bearer and the fruit is of a fine flavor. 

 Several times I have eaten my fill of it. Though it was such a 

 distinct plant, yet I was loath to publish it from a single station. 

 But after visiting it again June 22, 1905, I had the good fortune 

 to find it the next day in Grafton. Here it is exactly the same 

 plant, though a little larger, as it grows in a more favorable 

 place and there is good reason to believe that it is not a mere 

 Jocal plant. 



William H. Blanchard. 



Westminster, Vermont. 



REVIEWS 



Rydberg's F'lora of Colorado* 



Not since the " Flora of Montana," by Dr. P. A. Rydberg, 

 appeared in 1900, has anything of comparable importance been 

 issued upon the plants of the interior west. A flora of Colorado 

 is essentially a flora of the Middle Rocky Mountains. The 

 great Centennial State with its exceedingly diversified soils, ex- 

 treme variation in altitudes, and great extent in latitude and lon- 

 gitude naturally supplies the conditions for a varied and exten- 

 sive flora. Wyoming, possessing essentially these same charac- 

 teristics, is equally prolific, the two floras having very much in 



* Rydberg, P. A. Flora of Colorado. The Agricultural Experiment Station of 

 the Colorado Agricultural College, Bulletin lOO. Pp. i-xxii -f 1-448. 1906. 



