Vor. II.] HOLLY FAMILY. 393 
Tlex verticillata tenuifolia Torr. Fl. North. U. S. 338. 1824. 
Leaves broadly obovate, obtuse but mucronulate, membranous. Maine to New Jersey. 
Ilex verticillata padifolia (Willd.) T. & G.; S. Wats. Bibl. 
Index, 1: 160, 1878. 
Leaves smaller, broadly oval or nearly orbicular, thick. 
Northern New York to Pennsylvania. 
8. Ilex laevigata (Pursh) A. Gray. Smooth 
Winter-berry. (Fig. 2363.) 
Prinos laevigatus Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 220. 1814. 
flex laevigata A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 264. 1856. 
A shrub, much resembling the preceding species. 
Twigs glabrous; leaves oval or oblong, thin, 1/-2 long, 
mainly acute or acutish at each end, glabrous on both 
sides or sometimes villous on the veins beneath, turn- 
ing yellow in autumn, finely serrulate; staminate flow- 
ers solitary or occasionally 2 together, on very slender 
pedicels 5’’-9’’ long; fertile flowers solitary, much 
shorter-peduncled; calyx-lobes acute, glabrous; drupes 
larger than in JZ. verticillata, orange-red, ripening 
earlier, on stalks about equal to their diameter. 
In swamps, Maine to Pennsylvania and Virginia. 
Blooms earlier than the preceding. May-June. 
2. ILICIOIDES Dumont. Bot. Cult. 4: 127. pl. 4. 1802. 
[NEMOPANTHES Raf. Journ. Phys. 89:96. 1819. 
A glabrous shrub, with slender-petioled oblong deciduous leaves, and polygamo-dioe- 
cious axillary small flowers. Calyx of the staminate flowers none, that of the pistillate 
minute, 4-5-toothed. Petals 4-5, distinct, linear. Stamens 4 or 5, free from the corolla; an- 
thers ovoid-globose. Ovary 3-5-lobed, 3-5-celled; 
ovules 1 in each cavity; stigmas 3-5, sessile. Drupe 
subglobose. Nutlets 4 or 5. [Greek, resembling holly. ] 
A monotypic genus of eastern North America, 
1. Ilicioides mucronata (I,.) Britton. Wild 
or Mountain Holly. (Fig. 2364.) 
Vaccinium mucronatum 1. Sp. Pl. 350. 1753. 
Nemopanthes fascicularis Raf. Journ. Phys. 89:97. 1819. 
NV. Canadensis DC. Mem. Soc. Gen. £: 450. 1821. 
I. mucronata Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5: 217. 1894. 
A shrub, 6°-8° high, with ash-colored bark. eaves 
elliptic or obovate, %4’—2’ long, acutish or mucronate at 
the apex, obtuse or acute at the base, entire or with a 
few small teeth; petioles 3/’-6’ long; flowers of both 
kinds solitary, or the staminate sometimes 2-4 toge- 
ther; pedicels very slender, often 114’ long; drupe 
red, 3/’—4’’ in diameter; nutlets faintly ribbed. 
In swamps, Nova Scotia to western Ontario, south to 
Wisconsin, Indiana and Virginia. May. 
Family 65. CELASTRACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 119. 1836. 
STAFEF-TREE FAMILY. 
Trees or shrubs, often climbing. Leaves alternate or opposite, simple. 
Stipules, when present, small and caducous. Flowers regular, generally per- 
fect, small. Pedicels commonly jointed. Calyx 4—5-lobed or parted, persistent, 
the lobes imbricated. Petals 4-5, spreading. Stamens inserted on the disk, 
alternate with the petals. Disk conspicuous, flat or lobed. Ovary sessile, its 
base distinct from or confluent with the disk, mostly 3~-5-celled; style short, 
thick; stigma entire or 3~-5-lobed; ovules 2 in each cell, anatropous. Fruit (in 
our species) a somewhat fleshy dehiscent 2-5-celled pod. Seeds arilled; embryo 
large; cotyledons foliaceous. 
About 4o genera and 350 species, widely distributed in warm and temperate regions. 
Leaves opposite; large erect or decumbent shrubs; fruit 3-5 lobed; aril red. 1. Euonymus. 
low spreading shrubs; fruit oblong; aril whitish. 2. Pachystima. 
Leaves alternate; woody vine. 3. Celastrus. 
1. EUONYMUS L, Sp elyro7emeel 756: 
Shrubs, with opposite petioled entire or serrate leaves, and perfect cymose axillary green- 
ish or purple flowers. Calyx 4-5-cleft, the lobes spreading or recurved. Petals 4 or 5, in- 
