Nemopanthus. . AQUIFOLIACE^. 391 



-(— -)— Leaves deciduous, thinner, not punctate : fruit subglobose, with sessile stigma, red 

 or exceptionally yellow, mostly exceeding the pedicels. 



I. verticillata, Gray. (Black Alder, Winterberry.) Tall loosely branched shrub, 

 often somewhat pubescent throughout when young : leaves lanceolate, oblanceolate, or obo- 

 vate, 1^ to 3 or rarely 4 inches long, mostly acuminate, rather coarsely serrate or biserrate, 

 veiny, usually loosely pubescent especially beneath, acute at base ; the downy petiole 3 to 6 

 lines long : sterile cymes fascicled, mostly short and 3-flowered ; the fertile 1-3-flowered 

 from a very short bibracteate peduncle ; peduncles and pedicels mostly glabrous or glabres- 

 cent : calyx-segments mostly obtuse, ciliate and often loosely pubescent : drupe often slightly 

 elongated, 3 lines in diameter. — Man. ed. 2, 264 ; Maximowicz, 1. c. 30 ; Trelease, 1. c. 348 ; 

 Dippel, 1. c. 513 ; Millspaugh, Med. Fl. i. t. 106. Priiws vertlciUutus, L. Spec. i. 330 ; Lam. 

 111. t. 255, f. 1 ; Bigel. Med. Bot. iii. 141, t. 56 ; Barton, Fl. Med. t. 17 ; Guimp. Otto & Hayne, 

 Abbild. Holzart. t. 56. P. padifolius, Willd. Enum. 394. P. confertus, Moench, Meth. 481. 

 P. Gronovii, Michx. Fl. ii. 236. — Canada to the Great Lakes, south to S. Carolina, Illinois, 

 and Alabama. (Japan.) A northeastern form with ample lanceolate or oblanceolate tliiu 

 leaves, less pubescent and less veiny than usual, is var. tenuifolia, Torr. Fl. N. & Midd. 

 States, 338. A northern form with the leaves smaller and more obovate than usual is var. 

 padifolia, Torr. & Gray in Wats. Bibl. Index, 160. The original Prinos padi/olius, Willd. 

 Enum. 394, is scarcely more than the common form of /. verticillata. 



I. laevigata, Gray. Lower rather compact shrub : twigs glabrous : leaves rather narrowly 

 lanceolate, mostly 1^ to 2 inches long, acute at both ends or subacuminate, low-serrulate, at 

 length veiny, glabrous or with a few persistent soft long hairs beneath, especially along the 

 midrib ; the glabrous or somewhat pubescent petiole 2 to 5 lines long : sterile flowers soli- 

 tary on bractless glabrous filiform pedicels often half inch or more long, or occasionally 

 in peduncled umbels of 3 ; the fertile solitary on shorter pedicels : calyx-segments mostly 

 acute, not pubescent but sometimes ciliate : drupe depressed-globose, usually 4 or 5 lines in 

 diameter. — Man. ed. 2, 264 ; Maximowicz, 1. c. 30 ; Trelease, 1. c. 348 ; Dippel, 1. c. 513 ; 

 Sargent, Gard. & For. iv. 220, f. 39. Prinos Icevigatus, Fursh, Fl. i. 220. — Massachusetts to 

 New Jersey aud Fennsylvania. 



1. lanceolAta, Chapm. 1. c. 270, Trelease, 1. c. 348, is a doubtful species. Prinos lanceolata, 

 Hill, Veg. Syst. xvi. 57, t. 61, from the fascicled leaves might be taken for a poorly drawn 

 /. decidua. 



2. NEMOPANTHUS, Raf. Mountain PIolly. (Name from v^/xa, 



thread, Troy's, foot, and av6o<s, flower, from the filiform peduncles.) — Shrub with 



nearly exstipulate leaves. — Am. Monthly Mag. ii. 176, iv. 357, & Am. Jour. 



Sci. i. 377. Nemopanthes, Raf. Jour. Phys. Ixxxix. 96; Benth. & Hook. Gen. 



i. 357; Baill. Hist. PI. xi. 219; Trelease, Trans. St. Louis Acad. v. 349; 



Kroufeld in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. iii. Ab. 5, 188. Nuttallia, DC. 



Rapp. Jard. Genev. 1821, 44. Ilicioides, Dumont-Cour. Bot. Cult. iv. 127. — 



A single species. 



N. f ascicularis, Raf. Glabrous or nearly so : leaves often fascicled on spurs, mostly 1 to 

 1 h inches long, elliptical, more or less acute at both ends, mucronate, entire or very low-ser- 

 rulate, thin but firm, finely reticulate-veiny, as in Vaccinium ; the petiole about 4 lines long : 

 pedicels solitary or clustered, simple or the staminate exceptionally in 3's from a peduncle 

 of equal length, 6 to 14 lines long : flowers scarcely expanding over 2 lines : drupe red, dull, 

 ovoid, styleless, about 3 lines in diameter, on a filiform suberect pedicel ; nutlets obscurely 

 somewhat ribbed on the back. — Am. Monthly Mag. iv. 357. Nemopant/ies /ascicularis, Eaf. 

 Jour. Fhys. Ixxxix. 97. N. Canadensis, DC. Me'm. Soc. Genev. i. 450, & Fl. Bar. Genev. 8, 

 t. 3 ; Trelease, 1. c. 349. Ilex Canadensis, Michx. Fl. ii. 229, t.49. /. delicatula. Barton, Fl. 

 Virg. 67. Prinos intefjrifolins, Ell. Sk. ii. 706. P. longipes, Eaf. Sylv. Tellur. 50. Nuttal- 

 lia Canadensis, DC. Bapp. Jard. Genev. 1821, 44. Vacciniu7n mncronatnm, L. Spec. i. 350. 

 Ilicioides mucronala, Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, v. 217. — Newfoundland to New Jersey, Ohio, 

 and the Great Lakes. 



