AQUIFOLIACEAE | 813 
WHEAT-BRUSH. OM )—Non-alluvial swamps and bays, often in acid soil, 
Coastal Plain, N Fla. to La. and Ga.—Spr.—The brown and red-tinged heart- 
wood is close- Bes pe heavy, but 1 brittle. The flowers are an important 
source of hon 
Famity 5. AQUIFOLIACEAE — Horny FAMILY 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate: blades simple. Flowers perfect or 
polygamous. Calyx of 4-6 dS sepals. n of 4—6 petals, often 
united an Eh n Androecium stamens Gynoecium 
united e Fruit E M Three BOUE and 300 species, in tem- 
perate and rat region 
1. ILEX L. Shrubs or trees. Leaves mostly persistent: blades entire or 
toothed. Flowers sometimes nearly dioecious. Sepals persistent. Co de- 
eiduous, white or greenish-white. Drupe with 4-8 nutlets.— 
mostly Ameriean.—HoLLrES.—The flowers of some species are an important 
souree of honey. Some of the red-fruited species are used for decorations for 
winter festivals. 
Fruit with smooth nutlets. 
Fruit d ribbed or striate nutlets. 
ets Wo on the back : leaves deciduous : 
‘blades thick-membranous or herbaceous, Subgenus II. PRINOIDES. 
Nutlet few- ribbed. or l -grooved on the Man leaves 
persistent, evergreen: blades -coriaceou 
Subgenus I. PRINOS. 
Subgenus III. AQUIFOLIUM. 
PRIN 
Drupes black, except in a red-fruited form L B glabra: leaves 
persi istent ; blades leathery. 
Leaves with blades of an obovate or ee type prevail- 
ing; petioles S short and stou 
dle, not spine-tippe E mostly less than 6 mm. 
in diamete 1. I. glabra. 
u e spinescent-toot hed above the middle or 
e-tipp rupes mostly over 6 mm. in diameter. 2. I. coriacea. 
spin 
Leaves with blades oe an ovate type prevailing; petioles 
poc long and slender. 
3. I. Krugiana. 
Drupe ys dE EUR ed ge-red, Dr Scarlet : leaves deciduous; blades 
er 
St taminate mud pistillate flowers on pedicels of about equal 
4. I. verticillata. 
Steminate flowers on conspicuously slender and long pedi- 
: the pistillate shorter-pedicelled. 5. I. laevigata. 
II, PRINOIDES 
pue ee solitary or clustered, without a common 
pedu 
Leaf-blades typically broadest above the middle. 
Nutlets faintly ribbed and striate: leaf-blades glabrous 
or meee ciliate. 
or 3-9 em. long: drupe shorter than the 
Leaf-blade 1-2 em. long: drupe longer than the 
1C 
Nutlets prominently ribbed and striate: leaf-blades pu- 
bescent beneath or usually so 
Pedicel much longer than the drupe: drupes solitary 
or 2 E ether. 8. I. Cuthberti. 
M much Shorter than the drupe: drupes more 
ess clustered. 9. I. decidua. 
Leaf-blades Dido at the middle or below it. 
eaf- es glabrous or with few hairs about the nerves: 
ca ane glabrous with 
eaf-blades x em, long, inconspicuously toothed: 
Carolinian. 
6. I. longipes. 
T. I. Curtissii. 
