164 Rhodora [SEPTEMBER 
deep narrow cavity and wide coarsely serrate lobes light red below 
the middle and pubescent on the upper side, persistent on the ripe 
fruit; flesh thin, dry and mealy ; nutlets 2 or 3, full and rounded at 
the ends, rounded and ridged on the back, with a broad slightly 
grooved ridge, irregularly penetrated on the inner faces by broad 
shallow cavities, 5-6 cm. long and about 4 cm. wide. 
A shrub 2-3 m. high, with stout slightly zigzag branchlets marked 
by large pale lenticels, light orange-yellow and glabrous when they 
first appear, becoming bright chestnut-brown and very lustrous dur- 
ing their first season and reddish brown the following year, and armed 
with stout slightly curved purplish shining spines 3.5-4.5 cm. long. 
Cornwall, Vermont, Æ. Brainerd (No. 15 d type), May and Sep- 
tember 1901, W. W. Eggleston (Nos. 2234 and 2323), May and July, 
1901. 
Well distinguished from the other species of this group by its mi- 
nute pale pink anthers and small hard long-persistent fruit. 
(To be continued.) 
SYMPHORICARPOS RACEMOSUS AND ITS VARIETIES 
IN EASTERN AMERICA. 
M. L. FERNALD. 
THERE are in eastern America three noteworthy variations of the 
Snowberry, Symphoricarpos racemosus, all with the corolla character- . 
istically bearded within and with the stamens and styles included, and 
seeming referable to one broadly distributed but variable species. 
The plant commonly known as .SympAoricarpos racemosus is an 
upright shrub with glabrous leaves and often numerous flowers in 
terminal or axillary spiciform racemes. This plant is very generally 
cultivated in Europe as well as in America; and as a native shrub it 
is found more or less across the continent from Quebec to Washing- 
ton, and very locally south in the mountains to Virginia. 
A second plant often smaller than the glabrous-leaved shrub, 
though sometimes quite as large, has the leaves pilose or tomentulose 
beneath, and usually few flowers. "This shrub with pubescent leaves 
is locally abundant, especially on calcareous rocky banks, from east- 
