108 ILICINE^E. (HOLLY FAMILY.) 



sterile flowers to be clustered in the axils. (The ancient Latin name of tho 

 Holly-Oak, rather than of the Holly.) 



1. AQUTFOLIUM. Parts of the flower commonly in fours, sometimes in 

 Jives or sixes; drupe red, its nutlets ribbed, veiny, or l-grooved on the bach; 

 It a res (mostly smooth) coriaceous and evergreen. 



* Leaves armed with spiny teeth; trees. 



1. I. opaca, Ait. (AjiEiiirAN IIoi.i.v.) Leaves oval, flat, the wavy 

 margins with scattered spiny teeth; flowers in loose dusters along the base 

 of the young branches and in the axils ; calyx-teeth acute. Moist woodlands, 

 .Maine to N. J., near the coast, west to S. Mo., and southward. June. Tree 

 20-40 high ; the deep green foliage less glossy than in the European Holly 

 (I. AQUIFOLIUM, L.), the berries not so bright red, and nutlets not so veiny. 



* * Leaves serrate or entire, not spiny ; shrubs. 



2. I. Cassine, L. (CA.-SI.SA. YAITOX.) LOUTS lance-orate or elliptical, 

 crenate (1 - l' long) ; flower-clusters nearly .si>s>il<-, smooth ; calyx-teeth obtuse. 

 Virginia and southward along the roast. May. Leaves used for tea by 

 the people along the coast, as they were to make the celebrated black drink 

 of the North Carolina Indians. 



3. I. Dahoon, Walt. (DAIJ<><>\ HOLLY.) Leaves oblanceolate or oblong, 

 entire, or sharp!// serrate toward the apex, with revolute margins (2-3' long), 

 the midrib and pi//n>/r/,s pubescent; calyx-teeth acute. Swamps, coast of Va. 

 and southward. May, June. 



Var. myrtifblia, Chapm. Leaves smaller (!' long or less) and narrower. 

 (I. myrtifolia, Walt.) Same habitat. May. 



2. PRIXOIDES. Parts of the (polygamous or diaciotis) flowers in fours or 

 Jives (rarely in sixes) ; drupe red or purple, the nutlets striate-many-ribbed 

 on the back; leaves deciduous ; shrubs. 



4. I. decidua, Walt. Leaves u-edye-oblong or lance-obovate, obtusely ser- 

 rate, dou'ni/ on the midrib beneath, shining above, becoming thickish ; peduncles 

 of the sterile flowers longer than the petioles, of the fertile short ; calyx-teeth 

 smooth, acute. Wet grounds, Va. to Mo., Kan., and southward. May. 



5. I. monticola, Gray. Leaves ovate or lance-oblong, ample (3-5' long), 

 taper-pointed, thin-membranaceous, smooth, sharply serrate; fertile flowers 

 very short-pedunded ; calyx ciliate. Damp woods, Taconic and Catskill 

 Mountains, and Cattaraugus Co., X. Y., through Peuu. (east to Northampton 

 Co.), and southward along the Alleghanies. May. 



6. I. mollis, Gray. Leaves soft downy beneath, oval, ovate, or oblong, 

 taper-pointed at both ends, especially at the apex, thin-membranaceous, sharply 

 serrulate ; sterile flowers very numerous in umbel-like clusters, the pedicels 

 shorter than the petiole and (with the calyx) soft -downy, the fertile peduncles 

 very short. Burgoon's Gap, Alleghanies of Penn. (J. R. Lowrie, Porter), and 

 along the mountains in the Southern States. Resembles the last. 



3. PRIXOS. Parts of the sterile flowers commonly in fours, Jives, or sixes, 

 those of the fertile flowers commonly in sixes (rarely in Jives, sevens, or eights); 

 nutlets smooth and even ; shrubs. 



