Rubus nigrobaccus L.H.Bailey x R. vermontanus Blanch.

Rubua frondiaeatia sp. hot* Leafy Bramble. (Blanchard, Terreya 6* 119. 1906
Plants with a great abundance ef large, stalked glands.
Mew canes.—Stems erect» never reaching the ground, three to fire feet high, stocky»
soft, often branched, more or less pentagonal and often slightly farrowed, with remarkably
numerous stalked glands* Prickles weak but not bristly, varying much in size, the larger
mostly on the angles, the smaller set at random, less than throe-ssxteenths of an inch
long, straight with a slight backward slant. Leaves of fair size, seven inches long and
wide, not thin, 5-foliolate, yellow-green above with white appressed hairs, lighter be-
low and quite pubescent and velvety to the touch. Leaflets broadly ovate, pointed, fine-
ly and doubly serrate-dentato, outline other wise entire, rounded at the base, the middle
leaflet over one-half as wide as long, sometimes cordate, the others narrower. Petiolo
and petiolules grooved above, very glandular, prickles fine, weak and recurved, the
petiolule of the middle leaflet one inch long, those of t he side ones one-half inch long,
the basal ones short.
Old canes.--Krsct, prickles and glandular covering somewhat impaired. Second year's
growth consisting normally of thick, short racemes above, and long leafy branches tipped
with inflorescence below, one from each old lsaf-axil; more often, the stem killing baek,
two or more leafy fruit-branches from tho axils of each old leaf. Terminal racemes two
to four inches long, very pubescent and glandular, about 10-fruited on short pedicels sub-
tended by small bracts and with a few small leaves at the base. No pure leaf-branches
yet observed. The branches below four to eight inches long with 3-foliolate leaves.
Leaflets broad, yellew-grfien, rounded at the base, short-pointed, rather ooarsely serrate-
dentate, hairy above and pubescent below. Axis seldom terete, prickles few and weak, very
pubescent end glandular* Inflorescence short, often many of the six to ten pedicels sub-
tended by large bracts or small unifoliate leaves. Flowers from one to one and one-fourth
inch broad, petals long-oval, one-half as wide as long. Fruit small, eylindrie, one-
fourth to three-eighths inch long, black and edible, drupelets rather large, often but
few ripening. Flowers the middle of June, fruit ripe early in August. Very little good
fruit.
Type station, Townshend, Windham Gepitty, Torment, in the immediate neighborhood of
the brick school house situated near the residence of Beacon J. 0. Follett and in his lot
adjoining.
I first noticed this plant July 5, 1902, and have repeatedly visited the type sta-
tion. Plants quite similar to these grow in three other places in Townshend and I have
one station on Bemis Hill in Athens, Yt., a few miles distant. Another station is on
Signal Hill, Alstead, H* BU The plant as at all these stations differs little from each
other, but even at the type station a difference in soil and Surroundings causes a con-
siderable variation. This is to be expected everywhere in the rose family	'
University of Minnesota Heebaeium
PLANTS OF ITASCA PARK
The Headwaters of the* Mississippi River
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