346 WOODY PLANTS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
intervals with light gray lichens. Leaves in tufts, or alternate 
on the upper shvots, on short petioles, lanceolate or broader 
towards the extremity, acute at both ends, often with a twisted 
acumination. margin slightly revolute, with a few appressed 
serratures, light green and shining on both surfaces, smooth, 
except a Slight pubescence along the nerves beneath, from one 
and a half to two and a half inches long, and one half to three 
quarters of an inch wide. 
The staminiferous flowers are on footstalks from one third of 
an inch to one inch in length, in the axil of the leaves or bud 
scales; fertile flowers on very short footstalks, in the axils of 
the leaves. The fruit, which remains on the stem during a great 
portion of the winter, is of a rich orange scarlet. It 1s solitary, 
three or four tenths of an inch thick, on stems as long as its 
diameter. ‘The buds are very small. 
This plant grows in deep, wet swamps, in Cambridge, and 
many other parts of the State, and is attractive in June from 
the multitude of its white flowers, in autumn and winter from 
its large scarlet berries, and at all times from the glossy lustre 
of its leaves. 
Sp.3. Te Ink Berry. P. gldber. L. 
Leaves and fruit figured in Abbott's Insects, I, Plate 35. 
An elegant, delicate-looking, evergreen shrub, with slender 
branches, growing in a few sheltered places in Plymouth and 
Hingham, to the height of from two to eight or nine feet. 
The leaves are lance-shaped or inversely lancc-shaped, an 
inch or more long, one third or one half an inch broad, tapering 
at base, terminating in an abrupt point; slightly reflexed at the 
margin, with one or two large, rounded teeth on each side to- 
wards the end, polished on both surfaces. 
‘The flowers are solitary, in the axils of the leaves, on thread- 
like, minutely hairy stalks, half an inch long. The calyx ends 
In six obtusely pointed lobes; the corolla in six or seven 
oblong, rounded segments, alternate with which are the white 
Stamens, ending in brown anthers. Ovary green, low, conical, 
crowned with a broad stigma. 
