38 THE BIOLOGICAL REVIEW. 



" Station — The spot upon which a specimen has been 

 collected or observed. 



" Habitat — The character of the place in which a type occurs. 



" In these definitions the word type is a general expression 

 for which in particular cases variety, species, genus, or the 

 name of any group may be substituted." 



I hope our readers will take these facts into consideration, 

 when making: collections and field notes. 



Note. — In the proposed Herbarium, which is to be established 

 in connection with our society, we have decided to follow the 

 arrangement and numbering of Patterson's Check-list of North 

 American Plants, and articles published in this journal relative 

 to plants will have the number, according to that list, following 

 the name of the plant heading the article. 



C. W. Armstrong. 



RUBUS CANADENSIS (LINN.) P.L. 2968. 

 DEWBERRY. 



This somewhat neglected " berry-bush " is common in 

 southern Ontario, growing on high, dry, untilled, sandy fields 

 and often on dry clay hills. In habit, as in habitat, it differs 

 very much from its nearest Canadian relative, the Thimbleberry 

 (R. villosus), so abundant everywhere in Ontario, in old " burn- 

 overs," in slashes, in neglected clearings and in open woods ; 

 the grand profusion of beautiful white flowers such a con- 

 spicuous feature in the landscape foreground, and the large 

 glossy black fruit such a boon to the early settler. 



R. villosus, in favourable situations, has a vigorous upward 

 growth, often somewhat reclining, the upper fourth usually bent 

 in a horizontal direction, the canes often six feet long and over 

 half an inch in diameter at the base, are armed with strong 

 curved hooks, like cats' claws, so very " catchy " of the pants 

 and dresses of the berry pickers. 



