MOUNTAIN HOLLY (Ilex monticola, Gray). Shrub to 40 

 feet. Low shrub with spreading stems, or narrowly pyramidal 

 tree; trunk short. Bark and wood like preceding species. 

 Leaves deciduous, thin, ovate, serrate, acuminate at apex, 

 acute at base, length 4 to 5 inches, width \ to 2 inches, 

 light green above, pale below; petioles short. Flowers in 

 June, in short-stalked cymes, axillary, dioecious. Fruit 

 scarlet berries, nearly \ inch in diameter, ripe in early autumn, 

 and soon falling with the leaves. Dist.: Mountain slopes, 

 following Alleghenies from New York to Alabama. A tree 

 only in the Carolinas, on the Blue Ridge foothills. 



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