Buds small, short, usually obtuse, plump, free, arranged as lateral buds and in small clusters on short spurs; leaf-scars prominent; season of bloom medium; flowers one inch across, white; borne in scattering clusters, in twos and threes; pedicels five-eighths of an inch long, rather slender, glabrous, greenish; calyx-tube green with a faint tinge of red, obconic, glabrous; calyx-lobes with a trace of red, rather long, serrate, glabrous within and without, reflexed; petals obovate, entire, nearly sessile, apex entire; filaments one-fourth inch long; pistil glabrous, nearly equal in length to the stamens. Fruit matures very late; nearly three-fourths of an inch in diameter, roundish to slightly oblate, compressed; cavity very shallow and narrow, flaring; suture indistinct; apex roundish with a small depression at the center; color very dark red approaching black; dots numerous, small, dark russet, inconspicuous; stem slender, one and one-fourth inches long, but slightly adherent to the fruit; skin thin, tender, separating readily from the pulp; flesh dark red, with much very dark colored juice, tender and melting, sprightly, tart, losing its astringency when fully ripe; of fair quality; stone free, nearly one-half inch in diameter, roundish-oblate, somewhat pointed, with smooth surfaces slightly stained with red. OX HEART _Prunus avium_ =1.= Miller _Gard. Kal._ 154, 1734. =2.= Christ _Handb._ 663. 1797. =3.= Brookshaw _Hort. Reposit._ =1=:36, Pl. 18 fig. 2. 1817. =4.= Coxe _Cult. Fr. Trees_ 249. 1817. =5.= Truchsess-Heim _Kirschensort_. 132-135. 1819. =6.= Downing Fr. _Trees Am._ 176. 1845. =7.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt._ 244. 1858. =8.= Mas _Pom. Gen._ =11=:57, 58, fig. 29. 1882. =9.= Oberdieck _Obst-Sort._ 365, 366. 1882. =10.= Mathieu _Nom. Pom._ 339, 371. 1889. _Bigarreau Gros Commun._ =11.= _Mag. Hort._ =9=:203. 1843.