The Deciduous Hollies 



with I. Amelanchier in a living state I have 

 taken the following descriptive notes from 

 Chapman's Flora of the Southern United States. 

 " The leaves are oblong, 2 inches long and i 

 inch wide, barely acute at each end, serrulate, 

 pubescent and finely reticulate beneath ; fruiting 

 pedicels solitary, as long as the petioles ; drupe 

 large, red ; nutlets strongly three-ribbed on the 

 back, calyx teeth acute." Found as a large 

 bush in swampy ground from Mississippi to 

 N. Carolina. 



I. decidua, Walters = I. aestivalis, I. prinoides, 

 and Prinos deciduus. A large growing deciduous 

 shrub inhabiting swampy ground over a con- 

 siderable area in the Southern United States. 

 Under cultivation it forms a bush 12 to 15 feet 

 high, and its principal attraction is its bright red 

 berries which ripen in autumn. The leaves are 

 from i to 2\ inches in length and half an inch to 

 an inch wide, acuminate and gradually narrowing 

 to a short petiole at the base. The margin is 

 obtusely serrate and the upper surface is usually 

 glabrous and glossy, the under surface being 

 paler, with the mid-rib densely pubescent, and 

 the secondary ones pubescent to a less degree. 

 The flowers are small and white, and borne in 

 axillary clusters on short pedicels. The female 

 flowers are succeeded by small, bright red fruits, 

 which ripen during late autumn. 



I. glabra, Gray = Prinos glaber and " Ink- 



