THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
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this display of brilliant color. The English maples too 
must have some of this wealth of autumnal coloring or 
Tennyson could never have written : — 
'That beech will gather brown 
This maple burn itself away." 
In a woodland tramp a botanist, even though he be 
an amateur, finds enjoyment in looking for rare and seldorn 
noticed species. I mark that day with a white stone when 
I saw the first tulip tree in my locality — the northern out- 
post of the species in this region. This station, by the way 
is only a few miles north of where Michaux mentions hav- 
ing seen the Liriodendron in 1792. The sassafras is also 
a local rarity and it has never been my good fortune to see 
a large tree, only a few shrubs hiding in the depths of the 
w^oods. I am informed, hov/ever, that half a century or 
more ago, a sassafras tree was not an uncommon sight. 
We might go on indefinitely, enumerating our native 
trees, but no pen can do justice to their beauty or their 
subtle charm. Only when we have lived among them 
and learned to know them, can we say : — 
^'Oh, sweet it was and fair it was 
In the green woods today, 
With only the tree-tops bending near 
And all the world away." 
ShushaUj N. Y. 
A NEW DEWBERRY. 
BY W. H. BLANCHARD. 
THIS dewberry which approaches R. hispidus, L. in 
many respects I propose to name : 
RuBUS Trifrons, n. sp. Plants nearly or quite pros- 
trate, with three-foliate, glabrous leaves and hispid, glandu- 
lar, slender canes frequently tipping. 
