194 AQUIFOLIACEAE. 
NEMOPANTHUS. Mountain Holly. 
(Family Aquifoliaceae). ; 
Shrubs: deciduous. Twigs 
rather slender, often remaining 
short, glabrous, and more or less 
glaucous, with finely fissured cor- 
tex when old: pith small, con- 
tinuous. Buds rather small, soli- 
tary, sessile, ovoid, usually at- 
tenuate at tip, with about 2 ciliate 
exposed scales. Leaf-secars alter- 
nate, clustered at the _ ends, 
slightly raised, triangular or 
crescent-shaped: bundle-trace 1: 
stipule-scars lacking. (Llicioi- 
des). 
Winter-characters are pictured 
by Schneider, f. 127. 
The mountain holly’ differs 
from the true hollies in lacking 
the short sepals that are to be 
found at the base of holly ber- 
ries, so that when its. long- 
stalked red fruits are present this aids in an otherwise diffi- 
cult recognition. 
Twigs from glaucous purplish becoming gray. N. mucronata. 
Like Prunus, Quercus, Rhamnus and other generic names 
of woody plants, Evonymus proves puzzling as to the agree- 
ment of its specific names. Following earlier botanists, Lin- 
naeus treated it as masculine and in this he has been fol- 
lowed by most writers though Schneider, as well as Rehder 
in the Standard Cyclopedia, has considered it to be a femi- 
nine fourth-declension noun because some of the species are 
unquestionably trees. The practice of Linnaeus is followed 
here, and agreements are made masculine, 
