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Index of Botanical Specimens

Classification	Rosaceae: Rubus
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode(s)	00872491
Collector	H. D. Thoreau
Country	United States of America
State	Massachusetts
Geography	North America: North America (CA, US, MX) (Region): United States of America: Massachusetts: Middlesex County: Concord
Locality	Conantum
Date Collected	1857-08-25
GUID	http://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/86d8d5a7-2ec2-4d24-b352-9b831eb01451
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode	00872491
Herbarium	GH
Family	Rosaceae
Determination	InQuestion Rubus villosus var. frondosus (Bigelow) Torrey
Determination Remarks	[is label name]
Family	Rosaceae
Determination	Rubus pensilvanicus Poiret
Determined by	Kittredge, Walter Tobey
Date Determined	2017
Determination Remarks	[is Current name]
Subcollection	Thoreau Herbarium
Phenology	Fruit
Preparation Type	Sheet
Preparation Method	Pressed

Remarks

[“Aug. 27. Thursday. P.M. – To Conantum, high-blackberrying. Detected a, to me, new kind of high blackberry on the edge of the cliff beyond Conant’s wall on Lee’s ground, - a long-peduncled (or pedicelled), leafy-racemed (somewhat panicled), erect blackberry. It has the aspect of R. Canadensis become erect, three or four feet high. The racemes (or panicles?) leafy, with simple ovate and broad-lanceolate leaves; loose, few flowered (ten or twelve); peduncles (or pedicels) one to two or more inches long, often branched, with bracts midway, in fruit, at least, drooping. Perhaps the terminal flowers open first. Stem angular and furrowed much like that of R. villosus, leaf-stalks more prickly; leaves broader, thinner, and less pointed, smooth above; beneath, as well as young branches, much smoother than R. villosus; lower leaves ternate and, if I remember, sometimes quinate. Berries of good size, globular, of very few, large grains, very glossy, of a lively flavor, when young of a peculiar light pink; sepals less recurved when ripe than those of villosus. It is apparently Bigelow”s R. frondosus made a variety by Gray; but see flowers.” Journal 10: 14-15. 1857]