'Of Alkermes - Communicated in French' by Monsieur Verny Paper originally written in French by Monsieur Verny, apothecary in Montpellier, France. The paper details how alkermes is prepared for use in medicine and in dyeing wool. Alkermes is an excrescence from wood or leaves of a shrub called ilex baccifera aquifolium, a type of holly, which grows in Languedoc, France. Subject: Botany Published in Philosophical Transactions vol 1, no 20, p 362 as 'A relation of the use of the grain of kermes for coloration, from France'. Translated from French by Henry Oldenburg. Communicated by Dr Croone. Read to the Royal Society on 17 October 1666. 17 October 1666