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Massachusetts to Florida and Louisiana; chiefly southern. A specimen 

 of this species(!) in hb. Kew is labeled "Saskatchewan, Drummond." 



11. I. LuciDA, ToRR. & Gr. — Taller shrub; leaves 2 or 3 in. long, the 

 larger oblanceolate, not at all crenulate, mostly acuminate, with a few ap- 

 pressed slender serratures above; peduncles i -flowered, bractless ; style 

 often prominent ; otherwise much like the last. — Watson, Index (1878), 

 159; Maxmiowicz, 26. Prinos lucidus^ Ait. 1. c. (1789), i. 478. — Georgia, 

 Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana. 



*~ ■*" Leaves thinner, deciduous, not punctate; fruit red or occasional!}' yellow. 



12. I. verticillata. Gray. — Shrub, usually tall; young growth most- 

 ly soon glabrate; leaves 2 or 3 in. long, lanceolate or oblanceolate to cu- 

 neate-obovate, obtuse to acuminate, serrate or biserrate, veiny, the lower 

 surface commonly with persistent pubescence, blackening before they fall 

 in autumn ; sterile cymes fascicled, motly short and 3-flowered, but occa- 

 sionally ample and forked; the fertile, i- or occasionally 3-flowered from 

 an often rudimentary bibracteate peduncle; calyx segments usually ob- 

 tuse, loosely hairy and ciliate; drupes subglobose, styleless, 6 mm. in 

 <liameter, on pedicels of scarcely equal length. — /. c, (1867), 307; Watson, 

 160; Maximowicz, 30; W.W.Bailey, Bull. Torrey Club, ix. 152. Prinos 

 x'ertict'llaius, L. Sp. (1753), 330. — Canada to Florida, west to Wisconsin 

 and Missouri. 



Two forms have received varietal names — var. tefiiiifolia, Torr. Fl. U. 

 S. (1824), 33S, and \a.Y. padifolia, T. & Gr. in Watson, I.e. (1878), 160, — 

 but the species is so variable that it has scarcely seemed to me desirable 

 to keep them up. 



13. I. LAEVIGATA, Gray. — Low shrub; twigs glabrous; leaves about 

 as large as in the last, lanceolate, mostly acute, crenate-toothed or low 

 serrulate, veiny, somewhat villous on the midrib and principal veins be- 

 low, turning yellow in autumn; sterile flowers solitary on bractless pedi- 

 cels a half inch long, the fertile shorter-stalked; calyx segments mostly 

 acute, glabrous, not ciliate; drupes ripening somewhat earlier than in 

 the last, usually short-styled, subglobose, 6 to 8 mm. in diameter, on pedi- 

 cels of equal length. — I.e. (1867), 307; Watson, 159; Maximowicz. 30. 

 Prinos IcBvigatus, Pursb, Fl. i. (1814), 220.— New England to Virginia, 

 west to Pennsylvania. I have seen no specimens collected north of Mas- 

 sachusetts nor south of New Jersey. 



14. \. lanceolata, Chapm. — Twigs glabrous; leaves 2 or 3 in. long, 

 thin, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, tapering to both ends, serrulate or 

 biserrulate, not very veiny, glabrous or with a few fine hairs above, espe- 

 cially on the petiole and midrib; sterile flowers umbellately clustered on 

 pedicels about 3 lines long, the fertile i to 3, from a rudimentary pedun- 

 cle ; calyx segments rounded, ciliate; drupes subglobose, about 6 mm. in 

 diameter, on shorter pedicels, red(?) or in the herbarium black. — I.e. 

 (i860), 270; Watson, 159; Sargent, Gard. & Forest, ii. 40. Prinos lati- 



