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serrate with low sharp teeth, or biserrate; caljx segments rounded, usu- 

 ally strongly ciliate; drupes subglobose, about 6 mm. in diameter, their 

 pedicels one-half shorter. — Fl. So. btates (1S60), 269; Watson, 157; Max- 

 imowicz. 30. — North Carolina to Florida, west to Arkansas and Texas. 



The earliest name appears to be Cassiue Carolininna, Walter, I. c. 

 (17S8), 242. If this specific name is to be accepted, the plant becomes /. 

 Carolintana (Walt.) The Cussi'ne Carolitiiaiia of Lam. Diet. i. 652 

 (17S3), is /. Casstfie. 



\'ar.(.'') coriacea. Leaves glabrous, firm and apparently evergreen. 

 — Tampa, Florida {Garber, 1877). 



7. I. MONTicoLA, Gray. — Leaves large, 2 to 5 in. long, frequently 

 rounded at base, with more conspicuous serrations, and usually sparingly 

 hairy along the veins on both sides; caiy.\ segments rather acute and less 

 ciliate; drupes spheroidal, with an evident style. — -Manual (1867), 306; 

 Watson, 159; Maximowicz, 30; Chapman, Supplement, 633. — Mountains, 

 New York to Alabama. 



8. I. MOLLIS, Gray. — At first closely soft-pubescent, the twigs and upper 

 surface of the leaves at length glabrate; leaves more broadly ovate; oth- 

 erwise resembling the last, of -which it is, perhaps, only a well-marked 

 variety. — I.e. (1867)5306; W^atson, 159; Maximowicz, 30; Chapman, 

 Suppl. 633. — Mountains, Pennsylvania to Georgia. 



As the Prinos ditbtus of Don, Mill. Diet. (1832), this becomes /. dubia 

 (Don.) of the Torrey Ckb Catalogue. 



•*~ "^ Sterile cymes several-flowered from a common peduncle. 



9. I. Amelanchier, M. a. Curtis. — Low shrub, somewhat pubescent; 

 leaves an inch and a half to 3 in. long, elliptical to lance-oblong, incon- 

 spicuously or low serrulate, downy or finally glabrate above, the lower 

 surface rugose-reticulate; stipules apparently rudimentary; calj'x seg- 

 ments acute, scarcely ciliate; drupes globose, about 10 mm. in diameter, 

 solitary on bractless pedicels as much as 18 mm. long. — Chapman, Fl. So. 

 States (1860), 270; Watson, 157; Sargent, Garden & Forest, ii. 40, with 

 illustration. — Borders of swamps, Society Hill, South Carolina {Curtis), 

 Covington, La. {Druminotid, 1S33, in hb. Kew and Brit. Mus.), ''Alaba- 

 ma" (yDrtimmond) in hb. Kew. 



* ♦ * Flowers 6- to 9-merous ; drupe red or black ; nutlets not ribbed. — § Pri'iios, Gr^y, 

 Manual, 5 ed. 307. Prinos, L. 



■^ Leaves coriaceous and evergreen, dotted below; fruit black. 



10. I. GLABRA, Gray. — Low shrub; young twigs finely puberulent; 

 leaves an inch or two long, cuneate-elliptical to oblanceolate, crenately 

 2- to 6-toothed near the mostly obtuse apex, the teeth ending in minute 

 appressed serratures; staminate and sometimes fertile peduncles several- 

 flowered, bibracteate; calyx segments variable in form and ciliation ; 

 drupes subglobose, 4 to 6 mm. in diameter, their pedicelsof equal length ; 

 style scarcely evident. — Man. (1867), 307; Watson, 159; Maximowicz. 

 26. Prinos glaber, L. Sp. (1753), 330. — Near the coast, Nova Scotia(!), 



