_Prunus injucunda_. =2.= Small _Torrey Bot. Club Bul._ =25=:149. 1898. =3.= Mohr _Ibid._ =26=:118. 1899. =4.= Ibid. _Cont. U. S. Nat. Herb._ =6=:552. 1901. =5.= Bailey _Cyc. Am. Hort._ 1449. 1901. Tree low, seldom twenty feet in height, often a straggling shrub; trunk short, crooked, attaining a diameter of eight inches; bark dark brown, nearly black; branches slender, rigid, twiggy and somewhat spiny; branchlets velvety becoming purplish and finally a dull gray; lenticels few, yellowish. Leaves oblong-ovate to obovate, taper-pointed at the apex and obtuse or rounded at the base, margins closely and finely toothed, thin in texture; upper surface yellowish-green, wrinkled and more or less pubescent, lower surface densely pubescent and with a prominent yellowish midrib and rather prominent lateral veins; petioles stout, one-half inch in length, very pubescent; stipules lanceolate, small, caducous. Flowers medium in size or small, usually appearing before the leaves; in four or five-flowered sub-sessile umbels; pedicels slender, three-quarters inch in length, very pubescent; calyx-tube obconic, tomentose, with erect, entire, sharply pointed, ciliate, tomentose lobes; petals white, orbicular, clawed; filaments and base of pistil tomentose. Fruit maturing in late summer, three-quarters inch long, oblong, with but a trace of cavity and suture, dark purple with light bloom; flesh thin, sour and very astringent; skin thick, tough; scarcely edible; stone ovoid, long, flat, roughish, pointed at both ends with a groove on one edge and a grooved ridge on the other. In 1898 Small described _Prunus injucunda_ as a new species from what had hitherto been considered a part of _Prunus umbellata_. Sargent, whom we follow, gives it as a botanical variety of _Prunus umbellata_. Small says that the two differ as follows: _Prunus injucunda_ has “a more rigid habit and the foliage, including the branchlets, is velvety tomentose. In place of the sub-globose drupe of _Prunus umbellata_ we find an oblong fruit of an extremely bitter taste. The stone is correspondingly lengthened.” To these differences may be added tomentose or pubescent leaves, hairy umbels, and tomentose calyx and pistil, as characters not found in _Prunus umbellata_ though there are occasional pubescent individuals in the species. Small first collected _Prunus injucunda_ in sandy soil in the granite districts about the base of Little Stone Mountain, Georgia, and reports it as occurring about Stone Mountain. Mohr reports the plant on rocky summits and among the sandstone cliffs of Alpine Mountain, Talladego County, Alabama, as a low, unsightly shrub, four feet in height, with short, straggling branches. The wild fruit is seldom fit for domestic use and with so much better material in other species the fruit-grower can hardly afford to spend time in an attempt to domesticate this one.