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shilling, perennial green. The flowers appear in June, in scattered clusters 

 at the base of the older branches, and the fertile ones are succeeded by red 

 berries which remain until late in autumn. The wood is fine grained and 

 compact, useful in turnery, <fcc. Jlmericun Holly. 



2. JNEMOPA'NTHES, 

 Calyx minute; petals 5, distinct, linear oblong; stamens 

 5; ovary hemispherical; stigmas 3 — 4, sessile; fruit a 3 — 4' 

 celled, subglobose beri-y. 



Gr. vffioj, a grove, TrctvToi (genitive of 7ra«) all; that is, a native of all 

 groves, common ; a character not strictly applicable to this rather rare shrub 

 in the Northern States. Leaves alternate, deciduous, entire. Flowers mostlj 

 dioecious-polygamous by abortion. 



N. CaNADE'NSIS. liaf. Ilex Canadensis Mx. 



Leaves deciduous, oval, very entire, smooth, mucronate-pointed peduncles 

 nearly solitary, very long ; fruit somewhat 4-sided. A shrub, 4 — 6 feet high, 

 with smooth branches, growing in damp or rocky woods. Leaves oval or 

 ovate-oblong, about 2 inches long, on p«^tioles one third as long. The flowers, 

 growing on long, slender, axillary peduncles which are seldom divided, are 

 small, greenish white. Segments of the Cfrolla acute, long as the stamens. 

 Ovary of the barren flowers pointed, of the fertile with a 4-lobed stigma. 

 Berries dry, red. May, June. 



3. PRINOS. 

 Heads often dioecious or polygamous; calyx mostly 6-cleft; 

 CM^Ita 6-parted, rotate; stamens 4—6, berry 6-seeded. 



Prinos was the Gr. name of the evergreen Oak. Cor. rotate, limb divided 

 into 4 — 6 oval seg. Sta. shorter than cor. Berry roundish, much larger 

 than the cal. Seeds bony , convex on one side, angular on the other. Shrubs, 



1. P. verticilla'tus. 



LrMves deciduous, oval, serrate, acuminate, pubescent beneath ; fioicers 

 axillary, the fertile ones aggregate, the barren subumbellate. This shrub is 

 found in moist woods or swamps, usually growing about 8 feet high. Leaves 

 narrowed at base into a short petiole, uncinately serrate, with prominent, 

 pubescent veins beneath. Flowers white, dioecious, small, in imperfect 

 umbels or heads, sometimes monoecious. Berries scarlet, in little bunches 

 (apparently verticiUate), roundish, 6-celled and 6-seeded, permanent. July. 



Winter Berry. Black Alder, 



2. P. GLABER. 



Leaves evergreen, coriaceous, cuneate-lanceolate, glabrous, shining, serrate 

 at the end. A shrub 3 — 4 feet hicrh, found in swamps, with alternate, v,ery 

 smooth, leathery, shining leaves, and axillary white-petaled flowers, appearing 

 in June and July. Pedicels subsolitary, mostly S-flowered. Berries round- 

 ish, black and shining. I'tii Berry. 



3. P. ambi'guus. 



Xcrt»es deciduous, oval, entire, acuminate at both ends ; parts of the floicer 

 in 4s, the sterile ones crowded ; the fertile, solitary, A shrub or small tree, 

 K— 15 feet high, in wet grounds. Bark whitish, smooth. Leaves elliptical- 

 oval, mucronate-pointed, petiolate, subpubesccnt beneath, 1 — 2 inches long 

 and half as wide. Flowers polygamous, 4— 5-cleft, the fertile ones on long 

 peduncles. June. Long-leaved Winter Berry, 



