Handbook of Trees of the Northern States and Canada. 319 



The Deciduous Holly throughout most of its 

 range is only a shrub, but in localities west 

 of the Mississippi, particularly in Arkansas, 

 it becomes a small straggling tree occasionally 

 25 ft. in iieight, with crooked or inclined trunk 

 6 or 8 in. in diameter and covered with a 

 smooth pale gray more or less mottled bark. 

 It inhabits swampy places overhanging the 

 borders of lakes and streams in company with 

 the Red-bud, Prickly Ash, Soapberry, Missis- 

 sippi Hackberry, Rusty Nannyberry, Rough- 

 leaved Dogwood, Cypress, etc. In such localities 

 in Autumn it is one of the most beauti- 

 ful objects of these interesting regions, par- 

 ticularly after the leaves have fallen and its 

 conspicuous red fruit persists long upon its 

 leafless branches. 



Its wood is rather heavy, a cu. ft. when 

 absolutely dry weighing 46.24 lbs., hard, close- 

 grained and creamy white in color. 



Leaves deciduous, lance-obovate or spatiilate, 

 li^-.T in. long, cuneate at base, acute, obtiiso or 

 emarginate at apex, crenate, glaliroiis dark f;roon 

 above, paler and pubescent on the midribs beneath 

 and the petioles : and branclilots silvery gray. 

 Floicers (May) mainly on growth of the previous 

 season, mostly in pairs, with slendor podicols. 

 without bractlets. those of the staminate about 

 % in. long and those of the pistillate shorter ; 

 calyx lobes triangular. Fruit ripening in early 

 autumn and often persisting until spring. Vt iu. 

 in diamotor. rod. doprossod globose with pedicels 

 scarcely I4 in. long ; nutlet ribbed. 



