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the maturing fruits, crowded upon the shortened axis, press one 

 another, and even those of the opposite spikes, into irregular stellate 

 dusters. In the late autumn a few leaves still stand out stiffly, 

 but through the winter, until they have shriveled and blackened, 

 or the birds have eaten the fruits, there is no veil to the showiness 

 of the shrub. 



The coral-berry prefers normal loam or clayey grove-like wood- 

 land, frequently on the thin soil of rocky places. It occurs as a 

 native plant from western New York to South Dakota, Georgia, 

 and Texas, only southward crossing the Alleghanies into the Pied- 

 mont flora of the Atlantic slope. It has long been cultivated and 

 in many of the older settlements is a chance escape. 



Like the closely allied snowberry, figured on plate 94, and as 

 might be presumed from its abundance in a wild state, this species 

 is of the easiest culture. Like that, it forms suckers, and the 

 mode of its propagation is the same. 



The specimen here illustrated was obtained from plants long 

 grown in the New York Botanical Garden. 



Francis W. PenneivI.. 



Explanation of Plate. Fig. 1. — Fruiting branch. Fig. 2. — Flowering 

 branch. Fig. 3.— Flower, X 5. 



