Excerpt from Natural History of New York A shrub 3 6 feet high. Leaves 1 11 inch long, ovate or oval, fascicled at the extremity of short branches, acute at each end, membranaceous when young, but at length somewhat coriaceous, usually entire, but sometimes with several acute denticulations toward the summit petioles half an inch long. Flowers on slender pedicels of about an inch in length, which spring from among the fascicles of leaves. Calyx a mere narrow margin. Corolla minute the petals spreading. Stamens sometimes 3 filaments slender: anthers oblong. Fruit the size of a large pea, rather dry, bright scarlet. Swamps, or sometimes in rather dry Situations frequent on mountains, but not uncommon in low grounds. Northern and western part of the State, and on the Catskill mountains. Fl. May June. Fr. September. I have found this plant on the borders of Hackensack meadows, about one mile from Hoboken. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.