NOTES FROM A GARDEN HERBARIUM— II. 



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A. S. Fuller, which is Rubus strigosus. The stems are 

 whitish The leaves also possess a curious dentation, 

 the teeth being rounded and tipped with a short cusp, 

 but I am not sure that this is a constant character, or 

 that the variety possesses any other distinguishing mark 

 than albinism. 



RuBUSOCciDENTALis, Linn. [Blackcap , Thiiiiblcbcrry oi 

 some.) Fig. 4, p, 723. Stems long and at maturity re- 

 curved and rooting at the tips, conspicuously glaucous, 

 armed with stiff, hooked prickles ; inflorescence densely 

 cymose, the peduncles all aggregated or rarely one or 



from the tip ; stems glaucous, usually more or less armed 

 with prickles, often bristly also ; inflorescence race- 

 mose-cymose, the peduncles short and usually prickly, 

 mostly stiff, the upper ones erect or ascending, simple or 

 nearly so above but unequally branched below, some 

 of them aggregated above ; fruit varying from purple- 

 black to bright purple or even yellowish. Among 

 cultivated sorts, the Shaffer (Fig. 5) may be consid- 

 ered the type of the species. A glance will show the 

 aggregated character of the fruit cluster at its apex 

 and the gradual tailing out of the cluster at the base. 



two somewhat remote, short and stiff, simple and erect, 

 bearing stiff prickles and sometimes also straight bristles ; 

 petals shorter than the sepals ; fruit depressed, firm and 

 dense, black. Fig. 4 is an excellent illustration of the 

 fruit cluster of Rubus occidentalis . Here belong the 

 Gregg, Hilborn, Ada, and others. 



There are still a number of garden varieties which do 

 not fall under either of the above species, but which 

 may be separated as 



Rubus neglectus, Peck. (22nd Rep. Reg. N. Y. State 

 Univ. 53, 1869). Figs. 5 and 6, pp. 721 and 723. Habit 

 "various, but the stems in typical forms long and rooting 



The unequal branching of the lower peduncles is not 

 well represented in this specimen, although it is appar- 

 ent. This unequal branching is seen both in the lengths 

 and ages of the branches. The lowest branches of the 

 cluster are apt to be imperfect. These imperfect 

 lower berries are well shown in Fig. 6, and also in 

 the cut of the Gladstone, page 564, September issue. 

 There are all gradations from the heavy-topped clus- 

 ter of the Shaffer to that of the Caroline (Fig. 6), in 

 which the upper fruits are only approximate ; but even 

 in the Caroline the inequality in age of branches of the 

 peduncles is well marked, and other characters place 



