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THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
New Canes. — Stems prostrate, starting very late, 
slender, two to five feet long, reddish, glabrous and terete, 
covered with a thick growth of bristles, 200 to the inch of 
stem, and an abundance of glanded hairs interspersed. 
Leaves thickish, three-foliate, dark green, glabrous and 
slightly shining on the upper surface; lighter green and 
glabrous on the lower surface. Leaflets sharply serrate 
and doubly serrate-dentate, the middle leaflet broadly obo- 
vate, the side ones broad-oval with a slight tendency to di- 
vide, all somewhat rounded at the base and very short- 
pointed. Petiole and petiolules slender, slightly grooved, 
glabrous, bristly and glandular; the petiolule of the middle 
leaflet less than one-half inch long, the others sessile. 
Old canes. — Dark red, the clothing of the stem much 
impaired, old leaves not persisting. Second year's growth 
consisting of leafy branches or stemlets, six to 12 inches 
long, tipped with inflorescence. The axis somewhat angled 
zig-zag, glabrous with a few weak bristles and glanded hairs. 
Leaves not thick, three-foliate or a few unifoliate, sharply 
serrate and serrate-dentate, glabrous, yellow-green. Leaf- 
lets short-pointed, narrow oval, the middle one short-stalked, 
petiole slender, nearly naked. Inflorescence a short raceme, 
axis inches long; pedicels about 12 subtended by nar- 
row bracts, set at a moderate angle; peduncle and pedicels 
slender, hispid, pubescent with glanded hairs interspersed. 
Flowers one inch broad, petals slender, less than one-half 
as wide as long; appearing the last of June. Fruit small, 
maturing, but few drupelets, ripening the last of August. 
Type station: — Wait's pasture, West Wardsboro, 
Windham County, Vt., one mile east of the village. Alti- 
tude 1,700 feet open land. Abundant in Stratton, West 
Jamaica and West Wardsboro. 
This species was discovered by me, June 27, 1904. It 
is abundant in the section named and grows in thick beds 
