Report of the Botanist. 53 



Amorpha fruticosa, L. 



Banks of the Hudson below Greenbush. Doubtless escaped 

 from some garden. 



RlTBUS NEGLECTUS, Sp. UOV. 



Stems recurved, armed with numerous straight prickles / berries 

 dark red, having a whitish bloom/ calyx hispid. 



Stems long, recurved, when young covered with a glaucous 

 bloom, armed with numerous rather strong, straight prickles, those 

 on the flowering branches and petioles sometimes recurved ; leaves 

 trifoliate, the leaflets ovate-acuminate, coarsely and doubly serrate, 

 green above, white tomentose beneath, with rather prominent 

 anastomosing veinlets, lateral ones sessile, terminal one often 

 unequally two or three lobed and subcordate ; flowers on ascend- 

 ing or erect branches, axillary and subeorymbose, the pedicels 

 armed with unequal slender prickles, intermingled with stiff, 

 glandular hairs ; calyx hispid ; fruit dark clouded red, with a 

 whitish tomentose bloom. Flowers in June, fruit ripe in July. 

 Sancllake. Not common. 



This species is intermediate between i?. strigosus and R. occident- 

 alism and combines to a considerable extent the characters of both. 

 From the former it may be distinguished by its mode of growth 

 (which is exactly like that of R. occidentalis), long recurved stems 

 and stout prickles ; from the latter by its more numerous, straight 

 prickles, sessile lateral leaflets and hispid calyx; from both by the 

 color and flavor of its berries. These have a peculiarly agreeable 

 taste, which probably suggested the name " Cream Berries" by 

 which the fruit is known to the inhabitants of the locality above 

 mentioned. 



It occurs sparingly in recently cleared lands, associated with its 

 nearly allied species. It is recommended to the attention of gar- 

 deners and fruit growers as worthy of cultivation. 



It seems to have been previously known to some of our botanists, 

 but was probably considered a sportive form of one or another of 

 its congeners, in view of which a name has been given indicative 

 of its supposed past "treatment. 



Calendula, officinalis, L. 



Newark, Wayne county. E. L. Hankenson. A garden scape. 



Yaccinium c^espitosum, Michx. 



Summit of Mt. Whiteface, Essex county. 



Lamium album, Z. 



Roadsides, Herkimer county. B. D. Gilbert. Introduced. 



Mentha arvensis, L. 



North Greenbush. Introduced. 



