2. Re alnifolia L'Here «<~—— >A rather dense leafy shrub 1-2 m. 
tall, the stems mumerous, erect or ascending, with dull reddish brown bark, 
the branchlets olivaceous; stipules linear, 5-6 mn. long, deciduous, or 
often persistent; leaves 6-10 cm. long, elliptical gammmgimgg to obovate, some- 
what rounded at the base and usually shortly acuminate at the apex, ar 
finely cremate, the teeth. appearing rounded but bearing a minute 
elandular prong which is directed into the sims, the lower surface lightly 
hairy especially on the veins, petioles 5-8 mm. long; flowers 1-5 in the 
axils of short lateral branchlets, ee ee 2-5 mne long, 
glabrous, the calyx lobes deltoid, acute, the pedicels 4-5 mm. long; stamens 
mimite; drupes flattened-globose, 7-8 mm. in diameter, red, then black,bearing 
mtlets 3 mn. long, flattened ovate, wrinkled. 
Occasional in boggy ground in meadows or along streams in the open 
2500-3500 feet, rarely fruiting in the north of our range. 
