390 AQUIFOLIACEiE. Ilex. 



fourths incli to 2 iuclies long, mostly acuminate, sparingly low-serrate or biserrate, gradually 

 acute or cuneate at base, the deeply grooved petiole (1 to 3 lines long) and tlie upper sur- 

 face along the midrib mostly pubescent : calyx-segments roimded in fertile flowers, ciliate : 

 drupe subglobose, about 3 lines in diameter, with sessile stigma ; the pedicel a half shorter. 

 — Fl. 269 ; Maximowicz, 1. c. 30 ; Trelease, 1. c. 347. Vussine Caroliniana, Walt. Fl. 242. 

 Prinos ambi(/uus, Michx. Fl. ii. 236. Si/nstima acuminata, liaf. 1. c. 49. S. ambigua, Kaf. 

 ear Wats. Bibl. Index, 157. Nemopanthes ainbiijua, Wood, Class-Book, ed. of 1861,497. — 

 North Carolina to Florida and Texas, north to Arkansas, Fendler. Exceptionally the sur- 

 face of the leaves is sparingly puberulent, especially beneath. A form from Tampa, Florida, 

 Garber, with the small leaves glabrous and very firm, is var. coiuacea, Trelease, 1. c. 347. 



I. mollis, Gray. Scarcely arboreous, at first softly gray-downy, the twigs and often upper 

 surface of the leaves at length glabrate : leaves thin, lanceolate to mostly broadly ovate, I^ 

 to 4 inches long : otherwise very close to the next, and somewhat intermediate between it 

 and the preceding. — Man. ed. 5, 306 ; Maximowicz, 1. c. 30; Trelease, 1. c. 347. I. dubia, 

 Britt. Sterns & Poggeub. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 11. /. moniana, var. mollis, Britton, Bull. Torr. 

 Club, xvii. 313. I. monticolu, var. mollis, Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, v. 217. Prinos dubius, 

 Don, Syst. ii. 20. — Blair and Carbon Counties, Fennsylvauia, to North and South Carolina 

 and Georgia, in the mountains. 



I. monticola, Gray. Occasionally arborescent, glabrous except for the veins of the leaves, 

 especially above : leaves thin, lanceolate to ovate, 2 to 6 inches long, mostly acuminate, rather 

 coarsely serrate ; the base acute to rounded ; petioles 3 to 6 lines long : calyx-segments sub- 

 acute, more or less ciliate : drupe slightly elongated and usually with an evident style : 

 otherwise resembling /. ambigua, from which it is most readily separable by the larger size 

 of the leaves. — Man. ed. 2, 264 ; Maximowicz, 1. c. 30 ; Trelease, 1. c. 347 ; Sargent, Silv. 

 i. 115, t. 50; Dippel, 1. c. 511, f. 246. /. montana, Torr. & Gray in Gray, Man. 276. /. Ame- 

 lanchier, var. monticola. Wood, Bot. & Fl. 208. — Pennsylvania to Tennessee, N. Carolina, and 

 N. iflabama, in the mountains. 



H 1— Sterile cymes several-flowered from a common peduncle. 



I. Amelanchier, M. A. Curtis. Low shrub, more or less persistently soft-pubescent 

 throughout: leaves thin, elliptical, 1| to 3 inches long, subacute, minutely and inconspicu- 

 ously serrulate, acute or rounded at base, rugose-veiny beneath ; petioles 3 to exceptionally 

 8 lines long : calyx-segments acute, scarcely ciliate : drupe globose, about 5 lines in diameter, 

 dull, as in Nemopanthus ; the slender bractless pedicels 3 to 9 lines long. — Curtis in Chapm. 

 Fl. 270; Sargent, Card. & For. ii. 40, f. 88 ; Trelease, 1. c. 347. — Society Hill, South Caro- 

 lina, Curtis, and Covington, Louisiana, Drummond. 



* * * Flowers mostly 6-9-merous : nutlets not ribbed. — § Prinos. 

 •i— Leaves evergreen, coriaceous, slightly revolute, dotted beneath ; the midrib elevated on 

 both surfaces : fruit black. 



I. glabra. Gray. (Inkberry.) Shrub: young twigs somewhat angled when dry, finely vel- 

 vety : leaves cuneately elliptical to oblanceolate, 1 to 2 inches long, mostly obtuse, crenatcly 

 2-6-toothed near tlie apex, minutely puberulent on the midrib above ; the velvety petiole 2 

 to 3 lines long : staminate and sometimes fertile peduncles several-flowered, bracteate, often 

 velvety : calyx-segments from narrow and acute to broad and rather blunt, often more or 

 less ciliate : dru])e subglobose, 2 to 3 lines in diameter ; the pedicel of equal length ; stigma 

 nearly or quite sessile. — Man. ed. 2, 264 ; Maximowicz, 1. c. 26 ; Trelease, 1. c. 347. Prinos 

 gluber, L. Spec. i. 330 ; Lam. 111. t. 255, f. 2 ; Nouv. Duham. iii. 215, t. ,54 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. 

 t. 450. Winterlia tri flora, Mamcb, Meth. 74. Ennepta mi/ricoides, Raf. Sylv. Tellur. 52. — 

 Massachusetts to Florida and Louisiana, in the vicinity of the coast. 



I. COriacea, Chapm'. Tall shrub : young twigs somewhat viscidly puberulent : leaves glossy 

 above, elliptical or oljovate to oblanceolate, 2 or 3 inches long, acute to acuminate, entire or 

 usually with several low but sharp serratures on each side, often velvety on the midrib 

 above, acutely tapering into a petiole 2 to 4 lines long : peduncles 1-flowered, bractless, 

 glabrous : drupe about as in the last, but the style often more prominent and the pedicel 

 somewhat longer. — Fl. 270. /. lucida, Torr. & Gray in Wats. Bibl. Index, 159; Maxi- 

 mowicz, 1. c. 26 ; Trelease, 1. c. 348. Prinos Incidus, Ait. Kew. i. 478. P. coriaceus, Pursh, 

 Fl. i. 221. P. ntomarius, Nutt. Gen. i. 213. Ennepta coriacea, Paf. Sylv. Tellur. 52. 

 E. atomaria, Baf. 1. c. — North Carolina to Florida and around the coast to Louisiana. 



