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II. CLIFTONIA. 



Small trees or shrubs ; branches smooth ; leaves evergreen, 

 entire, glaucous ; flowers wliite, racemose ; sepals 5-8, minute ; 

 petals 5-8, spreading; stamens 10, those opposite the petals 

 longer ; stigma sessile, 3-4-lobed ; fruit o-4-winged, 3-4- 

 celled, cells 1-seeded. 



C. LiGUSTUixA Banks. Tin. A small tree; leaves ohovate or 

 oblong, glaucous, thick; racemes terminal, 2-4 in. long, many- 

 flowered; flowers white, fragrant; fruit nodding, long-] >ersi stent. 

 March-April On damp soil, more abundant southward. 



71. ILICACEiE. HOLLY FAMILY. 



Trees or shrubs ; leaves simple, alternate, petioled ; stipules 

 small or wanting ; flowers small, greenish, clustered or soli- 

 tary in the axils, usually dioecious ; calyx 4-9-parted ; petals 

 4-9, somewhat united at the base ; stamens inserted in the 

 tul)e of the corolla and alternate with its lobes ; ovary free, 

 4-9-celled, with a single ovule in each cell ; fruit a berry-like 

 drupe, 4-9-seeded. 



ILEX. 



Small trees or shrubs; leaves usually coriaceous, often per- 

 sistent and evergreen ; stijmles minute ; flowers axillary, 4-9- 

 l)arted, the fertile often solitary and the staminate clustered ; 

 fruit a drupe with 4-9 nutlets. 



1. I. oi'ACA Ait. Ilni.i.v. Trcrs Willi smoolli. liglit-culon'd 

 liMik, and li.iid, \('ry white wotid; yoimg (wigs |>nl»<'sct'nl : It-aNcs 

 coriaccdiis, <i\:il or oNati', margin ]>rlek]y tooliied, dai'k gi'cru and 

 shining ahoxc, paler and sometimes sHgiilly puberulent heneath; 

 pedinicles short, bracted; flowers l-parted, staminate llowcrs in small 

 cymes, the pistillate usually solitai-y; di'iipes Itrighl red. April- 

 May. Diimp, sandy soil. 



'J. 1. in:(ii)irA Walt. l)i;<ii)r<ns Holly. Small trees; twigs 

 snu)otli ; leaves thin, obovate, obtuse or sometimes acute at the apex, 

 crenate, smooth, deciduous; flowers in sessile clusters, I (i-part"<|; 

 drupes Very niniieroiis, l>iight re<|. Aj'ril May. ()u low mdund. 



