426 BICKNELL: FERNS AND FLOWERING PLANTS OF NANTUCKET 
about ponds and bogs in Polpis, on the eastern side, and occurs in 
Saul’s Hills, in Squam, and about the borders of Tom Never’s 
Swamp. Small flower buds June 10, 1908; first flowers July 2, 
1912, generally in full blossom July 6; green fruit at the middle of 
September 1899. 
ILEX BRONXENS!S Britton. 
Wet thickets and low grounds, either strongly typical or varying 
toward the next. The most pronounced examples, collected in 
Shawkemo, bore broadly obovate or obovate-oblong leaves 2.5-5 
em. wide and 5-8 cm. in length of blade. First flowers July 4, 
1912. 
As here understood, this is our common northern winterberry, 
which is replaced southward by true Ilex verticillata (L.) A. Gray 
(I. verticillata var. padifolia Watson, Prinos padifolius Willd.). 
The latter, although common near New York City and frequent 
on Long Island, appears not to extend eastward beyond southern 
New England. 
*Tlex fastigiata sp. (?) nov. -s but 
A closely much branched shrub similar to I/ex bronxensts 0” 
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on the veins beneath, very numerous, much smaller, nee Lahn 
more attenuate than those of J. bronxensis, dark green am 
to oblong-lanceolate or oblong, tapering to base and apex, 
abruptly attenuate or short-caudate, commonly 
teeth almost spinescent, the margins undulate-revo pending 
flowers on slender pedicels 1.5-4 mm. long, the corolla ‘ : it com- 
5-8 mm.; calyx lobes ciliate, mostly obtuse or rounded qe in 
monly smaller, more clustered, and deeper red in oe 
I. bronxensis. 
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Ordinarily it § 
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Common on Nantucket in low grounds, ofte 
wet thickets, and not infrequent in dry barrens. 
from five to eight feet in height but becomes fifteen f 
stems seventeen inches in basal girth. Nearly in flower Jun 
