Sand cherry ripe. The fruit droops in umble-like clusters, two to four peduncles together, on each side the axil of a branchlet or a leaf. Emerson and Gray call it dark-red. It is black when ripe. Emerson, Gray, and Bigelow speak of it as rare in this State! It is common enough here. I have seen it as abundant as anywhere on Weir (or Ware) Hill in Sudbury, Bigelow’s own town. Cherry three eighths of an inch in diameter, peduncle seven sixteenths long. Emerson call it eatable! On Linnaea Hill. By factory road clearing, the small rough sunflower, two or three days. Gerardia flava, apparently several days. Cicuta bulbosa, several days. Richweed at Brown’s oak, several days (since 16th; say 22d).
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