Rubus leucodermis var. bernardinus (Greene) Jeps.

Rubus bernardinus (Greene) Rydberg
Melanobatus bernardinus Greene, Leaflets 1: 244. 1906.
Stems biennial, recurved or decumbent, glabrous or nearly so, the second year yellowish or purplish, glacuous, armed with rather stout, reflexed and flattened prickles; leaves of the floral branches 3-foliolate; stipules small, setaceous; petioles, petiolules, and midveins prickly; terminal leaflet broadly ovate, deltoidor rhombic-ovate, sometimes 3-lobed, 2-5 cm. long, coarsely double-serrate with ovate teeth, acute at the apex, usually rounded at the base, darkgreen and sparingly pubescent above, densely and finely white-tomentose beneath; petiolule 1-2 cm. long; lateral leaflets more rounded, decidedly oblique, somewhat smaller, subsessile; inflorescence few-flowered, terminal, short-tomentose, glandular and with a few prickles; sepals lance-ovate, densely tomentose, short-acuminate; petals white, oval, shorter than the sepals; fruit hemispheric, 1 cm. high; drupelets numerous, pubescent.
Type locality: Mill Creek Falls. San Bernardino Mountains, California. Distribution: Southern California; apparently also New Mexico.

Rubus nigerrimus (Greene) Rydberg
Rubus hesperius Piper, Erythea 5: 103. 1897. Not R. hesperius Rogers. 1896.
Malanobatus nigerrimus Greene, Leaflets 1: 244. 1906.
Rubus transmontanus Focke, Bibl. Bot, 17 72 : 27, in part, as to synonym. 1910.
Stem biennial, 1-2 m. high, at first glaucous, when older brownish and shining, strongly armed with straight flat prickles 4-8 mm. long; floral branches 1-3 dm. long, armed with more or less recurved prickles; leaves 3-foliolate or on more vigorous turions pedately 5-foliolate; stipules setaceous, adnate to the petioles, about 1 cm. long; petiole, rachis, and ribs armed with recurved flat prickles; leaflets 5-8 cm. long, ovate, acuminate, thickish, coarsely and doubly serrate, green and glabrous on both sides; petiolules of the lateral leaflets 1-2 mm. long, that of the terminal one 2-5 cm. long; flowers in terminal corymbs or a few in the upper leaf-axils; peduncle and pedicels armed with recurved prickles; hypanthium and calyx glabrous or sparingly glandular; sepals lanceolate, long-acuminate, about 12 mm. long; petals spatulate, white, 3-4 mm. long, erect; fruit nearly black, without bloom; drupelets numerous, tomentose; putamen 2 mm. long, strongly faveolate-reticulate.
Type locality: Snake River Canyon at Wawawai and Alamota, Whitman County, Washington. Distribution: Eastern and central Washington.