82 ILICINE.E. (HOLLY FAMILY.) 



2. I. Dahoon, Walt. Young brandies, lower surface of the leaves, and 

 clusters more or less pubescent ; leaves varying from obovate to oblong-linear, 

 acute or obtuse, mucrouate, entire, or sharply serrate above the middle, on 

 short petioles ; sterile peduncles many-flowered, the fertile shorter, and mostly 

 1 -flowered; calyx teeth acute; nutlets 3-ribbed on the back. (I. laurifolia, 

 Nuit. I. ligustrina, Ell.) Var. MYRTIFOLIA. Leaves small ('- 1'), linear- 

 oblong, entire, or, on the young branches, sharply 2 - 4-toothed toward the 

 apex. (I. myrtifolia, Walt.) Margins of swamps and pine barren ponds, 

 South Florida to North Carolina, and westward. April- May. A hand- 

 some shrub or small tree. Leaves 2' - 3' long. 



3. I. Cassine, L. (VATPOX.) Leaves small ('- 1' long), oval or 

 oblong, obtuse, crenate ; clusters very numerous, nearly sessile : calyx lobes 

 minute, obtuse. Light sandy soil along the coast, Florida to North Caro- 

 lina. April. Shrub 8 C -12 high, slender, the short spreading branches 

 often spine-like. Fruit clustered, abundant. 



2. PRINOIDES. Parts of the flower 4 - 6 : drupe red or purple : nutlets 

 4-6, ribbed on the back : shrubs : leaves deciduous. 



4. I. decidua, Walt. Leaves lanceolate or oblong, obtusely serrate, 

 pubescent on the veins beneath, tapering into a short petiole ; flowers on 

 short pedicels, in sessile clusters; calyx teeth smooth, acute. Varies with 

 the leaves smooth on both sides, and the flowers on longer pedicels. River 

 swamps. April- May. A large shrub. Leaves 1' - 2' long. Drupe red. 



5. I. ambigua, Chapm. Brandies slender ; leaves oval or oblong, acute 

 or somewhat acuminate, finely and sharply serrate, smooth on both sides, or 

 rarely, like the branchlets, softly pubescent; pedicels of the sterile flowers 

 clustered, longer than the petioles ; those of the fertile ones very short, soli- 

 tary ; calyx teeth obtuse, ciliate. Sandy margins of swamps. April. A 

 shrub or small tree. Leaves l'-4' long. 



6. I. longipes, Chapm. Smooth; leaves l'-2' long, thin, ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, mostly acute, slender-petioled, appressed-serrate ; peduncles 

 I'-l-J-' long, the sterile clustered, the fertile single; calyx lobes acute; 

 style very short. Rocky woods in the upper districts. May. Shrub 

 3 -6 high. 



7. I. mollis, Gray. Leaves thin, oval or oblong, acuminate, sharply 

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

 pedicels shorter than the petiole, soft-downy, like the calyx ; fertile peduncles 

 very short. Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. 



8. I. monticola, Gray. Leaves thin, ovate or lance-oblong, acuminate, 

 smooth, sharply serrate; fertile flowers very short-peduncled ; calyx ciliate. 

 (I. ambigua, Torr.) Mountains of North Carolina (Gray). Leaves 3' -5' 

 long. 



9. I. Amelanchier, M. A. Curtis. Leaves oblong, barely acute at each 

 end, serrulate, pubescent and finely reticulate beneath ; fruiting pedicels soli- 

 tary, as long as the petioles; drupe large, red; nutlets strongly 3-ribbed on 

 the back; calyx teeth acute. Swamps, Mississippi to North Carolina.- 

 Leaves about 2' long, 1' wide. Prupe 3" -4" in diameter. 



