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AQUIFOLIACEiE. (HOLLY FAMILY.) 
* * Leaves coriaceous , evergreen , shining above: fruit black. 
3 - I*- fflaber, L. (Ink-berry.) Leaves wedge-lanceolate or 
oblong, sparingly toothed towards the apex, smooth; peduncles of 
the sterile flowers 3-6-flowered at the summit, of the fertile 1-flower- 
ed. — Sandy woods, from Cape Ann to New Jersey along the coast, 
and southward. June. — A handsome bushy shrub, 2P-3 0 high, with 
handsome small evergreen leaves. 
3. NEMOPANTHES, Raf. Mountain Holly. 
Flowers polygamo-dicecious. Calyx a minute ring. Petals 5, 
oblong-linear, reflexed, distinct. Stamens 5. Drupe with 4-5 
bony nutlets, light red. — A much branched shrub, with ash-gray 
bark, alternate and oblong deciduous leaves on short petioles, en¬ 
tire, or slightly toothed, smooth. Flowers solitary, on long and 
slender axillary peduncles. (Name said by the author of the ge¬ 
nus to mean “flower with a filiform peduncle,” therefore probably 
from vr)fj.a, a thread , novs, a foot , and avOos, a flower.) 
1. IV. Canadensis, DC. (Ilex Canadensis, Michx.) — Damp 
cold woods, New England to Penn, and Ohio, chiefly northward. 
May. 
Order 61. EBEJVACEiE. (Ebony Family.) 
Trees or shrubs , with alternate entire leaves , and polyga¬ 
mous regular flowers which have a calyx free from the 
ovary , the stamens 2-4 times as many as the lobes of the 
corolla , and the fruit a several-celled berry. Seeds anatro- 
pous, mostly single in each cell, large and flat, with a smooth 
coriaceous integument; the embryo shorter than the hard 
albumen. 
1. DIOSPYROS, L. Persimmon. 
Calyx 4 - 6-lobed. Corolla 4-6-lobed. Stamens commonly 
16 in the sterile flowers, and 8 in the fertile, in the latter imper¬ 
fect. Berry large and globular, surrounded at the base by the 
permanent calyx, 4-8-celled, 4-8-seeded. — Flowers axillary, 
the fertile axillary and solitary, the sterile smaller and often clus¬ 
tered. 
L I>. Virginiana. L. (Common Persimmon.) Leaves 
ovate-oblong, smooth or nearly so; peduncles very short; calyx 4- 
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