474 FLOWERS OF FIELD. HILL, AND SWAMP 



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/. mo7iticoIa grows in moist woods among the Catskills to 

 western New York and Pennsylvania. Leaves 3 to 5 inches 

 long, acute, sharply serrate. Pistillate flowers short-peduncled. 

 Calyx hairy. 



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The American holly, /. opdca, is a tree of this family, 30 to 

 40 feet high, with evergreen, spiny-toothed leaves and red 

 berries. The English holly is prettier, with brighter-colored 

 berries and glossier leaves. 



16. Mountain Holly 



Nemopanthes fascicularis. — Fajfti/y, Holly. Color, white 

 or greenish. Leaves, oblong, or broadly oval, tapering at base, 

 acute at apex, smooth, pale green, distantly toothed, on slender 

 petioles. Time, May and June. 



Flowers, of 2 sorts, very small, on long, slender peduncles, 

 single, or a few clustered. Calyx, minute in the staminate 

 flowers. Corolla, of 4 or 5 oblong petals, soon dropping. 

 Statneiis, 4 or 5, with large anthers on long, slender, protrud- 

 ing filaments. Berry, pale crimson, ripe in August, contain- 

 ing 4 or 5 strong nutlets in yellow pulp. Shrub 6 or 8 feet 

 high, with dark-grayish or purplish bark on the older stems 

 which are often covered with brown or grayish lichens. 



Found in low, wet woods from Maine to Virginia, and Wis- 

 consin. 



17. Strawberry-bush 



Euonymus Americanus. — Family, Staff-tree. Color, green- 

 ish purple. Leaves, opposite, sessile, thick, and glossy green. 

 Titiie, June. 



Sepals, 4 or 5. They are united at base, short and spread- 

 ing. Fe/als, 5. Stamens, 5, very short. The seeds, sur- 



