AQUIFOLIACEAE (HOLLY FAMILY) 89 



ANACARDIACEAE (CASHEW FAMILY) 



Trees or shrubs with alternate leaves, and small 

 regular flowers in spikes or heads. A i-celled 

 ovary witli 3 styles or stigmas. Fruit drupe-like. 



RHUS 



Leaves usually compound. Flowers greenish- 

 white or yellowish. Sepals and petals 5. Sta- 



Floerkea proser- 



lliens $' pinacoides, 



False mermaid. 



R. canadensis, FRAGRANT SUMAC. A straggling 



bush, i to 2 m. high ; leaves with 3 leaflets which are rhombic-obovate, 

 or ovate, cut-toothed ; flowers pale yellow, in small spikes or heads, ap- 

 pearing in spring before the leaves ; fruit clothed with crimson hairs. 

 Dry rocky banks. 



AdTJIFOLIACEAE (HOLLY FAMILY) 



Trees or shrubs with simple leaves, small white or greenish 

 flowers, with parts 4 to 8. Fruit a drupe. 



ILEX 



Trees or shrubs with alternate leaves. Calyx 4 to 6 toothed. 

 Petals and stamens 4 to 6. The berry-like drupe containing 4 to 

 6 nutlets. 



I. verticillata, WINTERBERRY. Shrubs with deciduous leaves, oval, 

 obovate or wedge-lanceolate, serrate, downy on the veins beneath ; 

 flowers very short-peduncled ; calyx lobes ciliate on the margins ; fruit 

 red. Low grounds. May, June. 



NEMOPANTHUS 



A branching shrub with gray bark. Alternate, deciduous, en- 

 tire or slightly toothed leaves. Flowers on long axillary peduncles, 

 solitary or somewhat clustered. Parts of the flower 4 or 5. 



N. mucronata, MOUNTAIN HOLLY. Erect, reaching 3 m. in height; 

 leaves elliptic-oblong, thin ; drupe light-red. Damp woods. 



