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THE WEST VIRGINIA FLORA

R. odORATUS L. Purple-flowering Raspberry. Thimble-berry. Damp rock} places. Monongalia : near Little Falls. Grant : near Bayard. Randolph : near Crickard P. O. Fayette : nea: Kanawha Falls (James) ; near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). Pres ton: near Aurora (Mr. & Mrs. Steele). Summers: near Hinton. Hardy : near Moorefield (Gamble). Upshur: near Buckhannon (Pollock). R. ColUMbianus (Millsp.) Rydb. Leaves ample, 5-7-incised, divisions oblong-lanceolate long and taper pointed, sharply and mostly double serrate. Inflor escence smaller, more compact and the fruit smaller than in the previous species and of a more decided musky taste. Monongalia : cool woods, libbs Run. R. STRigosus Michx. Wild Red Raspberry. Thickets Fayette : near Nuttallburg, not plentiful (Nutt all). Pocahontas: Spruce Mountain (Hopkins). R. occiDENTALis L. Black Raspberry. Frequent throughout the State. R. NiGRobAccus Bailey. High Blackberry. (7?. villosus of Flora.) Common everywhere in the State. R. ARGUTUS Link, fide Rydberg. Roadsides, Randolph: near Pickens (H. H. Smith, 1384). R. Baileyanus Britton. (R. villosus humifusus T. & G.). Woods and river banks. Favette : near Nuttallburg (Nutt all). Var. FRONDOSUS Bigel. Fayette: near 'Nuttallburg (Nuttall). Preston: near Tunnellton R. Millspaughii Britt. This species was described in "The Bulletin of the Torry Club" for 1 891, page 366, as follows: "Ascending, wand-like, entirely unarmed or with a very few weak prickles above, glabrous throughout or the young er shoots scurfy pubescent. Stems one and one-half to four meters long ; leaves long petioled, pedately 5-foliate or some of those one the twigs 3-foliate ; leaflets thin, oval, glabrous on both sides, long-acuminate at the apex, mostly rounded at the base, 12-15 cm. lontv about 5 cm. wide, sharply, but not deeply serrate ; stock of the terminal leaflet 7-10 cm. long ; inflorescence loosely racemose ; bracts linear-lanceolate ; acuminate; fruit black, about 10 mm. long." "Nearest to R. villosus, but evidently a distinct species. Curiously enough there is a leaf of this species glued down on the sheet of R. Canadensis. L in herb Linn., and it ap pears to have been included in his description of that species —the specimens furnished by Kalm."