Ilex. AQUIFOLIACE^. 389 



170. /. cassinoides, Link, Euum. i. U8. /. laurifolia, Nutt. Am. Jour. Sci. v. 289. Ageria 

 palustris, Raf. Sylv. Tellur. 47. A. obovata, liaf. 1. c. 48. A. heterophijla, Raf. 1. c. — 

 North Caroliua, Curtis, to Florida. (Mex., W. lud.) With oblauceolate leaves 1 to 3 

 inches loug and scarcely over 6 Hues wide, and sometimes 8 or 10 drupes on a naked slioot, 

 it is var. angustifolia, Willd. (Spec. i. 709 ; Sargent, Silv. i. 110, t. 46, f . 8 ; /. angustifolia, 

 Willd. Enum. 172; I. Ugustrina, Ell. Sk. ii. 680 ; ? 7. Watsoniana, Spach, Hist. Veg. ii. 

 429), of about the range, scarcely to be maintained, and merging into 



Var. myrtifolia, Sargknt. Leaves crowded, very narrowly elliptical, revolute, less 

 than an inch long, mucrouate, mostly entire and glabrous : drupes mo.stly solitary and short- 

 stalked. — Gard. & For. ii. 616, & Silv. i. 110, t. 47. I. myrtifolia, Walt. Car. 241 ; Nouv. 

 Duham. i. 10, t. 4; Maximowicz, 1. c. 26, 31. /. Dahoon, var. mijrtifolia, Chapm. Fl. 269; 

 Trelease, 1. c. 346. /. rosmarinifolia. Lam. 111. i. 356. /. UgustrifoUa, Don, Syst. ii. 19. — 

 South Carolina to Florida and Alabama. 



I. vomitoria, Ait. (Cassena, Yaupon.) Occasionally arborescent : twigs, petioles, and 

 occasionally pediceis puberulent : leaves elliptical, about an inch long, very obtuse or emar- 

 ginate, coarsely creuate-serrate with a deciduous gland at each sinus, rather glossy ; petioles 

 1 to 2 lines long: sterile cymes 3-9-flowered, with a short common peduncle (4 lines long); 

 the fertile sessile, 1-3-flowered : calyx-segments rounded, scarcely ciliate : drupe globose, 2 

 or 3 lines in diameter, on pedicel of equal length, contracted below the stigma. — Kew. i. 

 170; Sargent, Silv. i. Ill, t. 48 ; Dippel, 1. c. 508. /. Cassiue, Walt. Car. 241 ; Maximowicz, 

 1. c. 22; Trelease, 1. c. 346; Hale, U. S. Dep. Agr. Bot. Div. Bull. 14. I. Cassine, fi, L. Spec. 

 i. 125. /. Cassena, Michx. Fl. ii. 229. /. Ugustrina, Jacq. Collect, iv. 105, & Ic. Rar. ii. 9, 

 t. 310. /. Ftoridana, Lam. 111. i. 356. /. religiosa, Bart. Fl. Virg. 66. /. (Emetila) ramn- 

 losa, Raf. Sylv. Tellur. 45. /. Caroliniana, Losener, Bot. Centralbl. xlvii. 163. Cassine 

 Peragua, L. Mant. ii. 220, in part. C. Caroliniana, Lara. Diet. i. 652. C. ramulosa, Raf. Fl. 

 Lud. no. Hierophyllus Cassine, Raf. Med. Bot. ii. 8. Ageria Cassena, Raf. Sylv. Tellur. 

 47. — North Caroliua to Florida and Texas, northward to Arkansas. * 



* * Flowers 4-6-merous : drupe red or purple ; nutlets as in the last : leaves deciduous. — 

 § Prinoides. 



-I— Cymes 1-flowered, bractless : leaves frequently crowded on short spurs. 

 ++ Leaves oblauceolate. 



I. decidua, Walt. Subarborescent : twigs glabrous, almost white iu winter : leaves oblau- 

 ceolate or narrowly obovate, 2 or occasionally 3 inches long, acuminate to mostly obtuse or 

 emarginate, crenate-serrulate, cuneate into a short mostly puberulent petiole, narrowly 

 grooved along the midrib above and the other veins often somewhat impres.sed, pubescent 

 beneath, at least along the midrib: flowers appearing with the leaves : sterile pedicels 3 to 

 6 lines long: calyx-segments obtuse to acute, not ciliate: drupe depressed-globose, about 

 3 lines in diameter, scarcely exceeded by the pedicel ; style usually very short, occasionally 

 half line loug. — Car. 241 ; Maximowicz, 1. c. 30; Trelease, 1. c. 346; Sargent, Silv. i. 113, 

 t. 49 ; Dippel, 1. c. 510. /. prinoides, Ait. Kew. i. 169. I. astivalis. Lam. Diet. iii. 147. 

 7. Prionites, Willd. Enum. Suppl. 8. Prinos deciduus, DC. Prodr. ii. 16. — North Carolina to 

 Kansas, southward to the Gulf. 



++ -H- Leaves lanceolate to ovate or obovate. 

 = Fruiting pedicels 10 or 12 lines long. 



I. longipes, Chapm. Large shrub : leaves thin, elliptical to broadly lanceolate, about 3 

 inches long, emarginate or obtuse to blunt-pointed, low-serrate or crenate, especially above, 

 the base mostly acute, sparingly ciliate with short thick hairs or slightly pubescent along the 

 impressed midrib on one or both surfaces, otherwise glabrous ; petioles 3 or 4 lines long : 

 sterile pedicels 6 to 8 lines long : drupe globose, about 4 lines in diameter, its filiform pedicel 

 nearly an inch long : otherwise similar to the preceding. — Chapm. in Trelease, 1. c. 346 ; 

 Trelease, Gard. & For. iii. 344, 345, f. 46. — North Carolina, Buckley, to Tennessee, Gat- 

 linger, south to Georgia, Chapman, Alabama, Buckley, and Louisiana, Drvmmond. 

 = = Fruiting pedicels less than half inch long : three closely related species perhaps 

 scarcely separable. 



I. ambigua, Chapm. Scarcely arboreous : twigs cherry-like, with large lenticels, glalirous 

 or somewhat puberulous : leaves rather broadly lanceolate, elliptical, ovate, or obovate, three 



