THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
Hidden away in the grass are the flowers of mouse-ear 
chickweed — a bad weed, as is also the very pretty H.ttle 
speedwell. Most of our weeds are foreigners from Old 
England. Perhaps they were passengers on the Mayflower 
and sprtmg up first upon the Plymouth coast. They own a 
pedigree that antedates Hastings and the Conqueror. King 
and president are all alike to them. Their office is to make 
the world more beautiful. It is a simple duty— but is faith- 
fully performed. Who would wholly eradicate these hum- 
ble sen-ants that minister to our delight? Be sure, that as 
the children love them, they are good. 
Brown University, Prozndencc, R. I. 
A NEW VERMONT BLACKBERRY. 
BY \\\ H. BLANCHARD. 
The species of blackberry- here described and named 
belongs to the Set&sns class, but it has little in common 
with the plants generally known as Riibtis setosiis, Bigelow, 
and to which Prof. C. H. Peck in 1891 gave the name of 
R. hispidus var. subcrecta, and which Dr. P. A. Rydberg in 
1901 named R. nigricans, these being generally soft-stem- 
med and beset with a multitude of soft bristles with as many 
glanded hairs interspersed. 
RuBus Grol-tiaxus, n. sp. small, erect, five-foliate, 
glabrous plants with very numerous strong, bristle-tipped 
prickles and a short, bristly inflorescence. 
A'^e^Cawe^.— Stems erect, ly^ to2y feet high, reddish 
glabrous and glandiess, nearly terete with angled pith. 
Pnckies numerous. 150 to the inch of stem, recur\'ed, bristle- 
tipped. Leaves rather small, five foliate, vellow-green on 
the upper surface, lighter on the under surface, glabrous on 
l:K>th. Leaflets oval, long-pointed, outline entire" finely and 
