Vaccinia in their mode of growth, and in the flowers being 
produced on erect terminal pedicels from bracteate buds. 
V. erythrocarpum is a native of the higher Alleghanies, 
from Virginia to North Carolina, where it grows gre- 
gariously, flowering in July. I do not find that it hasa 
native name. It was introduced into England in 1806 
by Messrs. Loddiges. The specimen here figured was 
from a plant raised from seeds sent by the late Dr. 
A. Gray from Harvard Botanical Gardens in 1886, and 
which flowered in the Arboretum of the Royal Gardens 
in June, 1894, The fruit, which is of a bright red when 
immature, and ripens to a blue-black, is slightly acid and 
insipid. 
Descr.—A shrub three to four feet high, with spreading 
terete branches, and puberulous branchlets. Leaves one 
and a half to two inches long, subsessile, deciduous, ovate 
or ovate-oblong, acute or acuminate, serrulate, with minute 
bristles on the upper surface, and in the angles between 
the teeth, base rounded or subacute, upper surface dark 
green, with sunk veins, under paler, with strong nerves 
and reticulate nervules; young leaves tinged with red. 
Flowers solitary in the axils of almost every leaf, half an 
inch long, pendulous from slender, minutely bibracteolate, 
pedicels one-fourth to two-thirds of an inch long. Calyx 
obconic, terete; limb minutely 4-toothed. Corolla come 
in bud, deeply four-lobed, the lobes linear and revolute. 
Stamens as long as the corolla-lobes, cohering in a trun- 
cate, erect cone; filaments very short, hairy, orange-red } 
anthers slender, pubescent, with two short, dorsal, spread- 
ing horns about the middle; tubes long, connate. Style 
stout. Berry at first red, ripe blue black, half an inch 10 
diameter, smooth, many-seeded.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Portion of upper surface of ‘ sF tyle; 4and 
5, stamens :—All sland oc of Atte tones 
