Ilex vomitoria, 
THE EMETIC HOLLY. 
Synonymes. 
Hex vomitoria, 
Bex cassena, 
Hex cassene vera, 
Houx apalachine, 
The americano, The Peragua, The apa- 
lachina, 
Cassene, Cassena, True Cassena, Ever- 
green Cassena, Cassioberry-bush, 
Yaupon, Yapon, 
Aiton, Hortus Kewensis. 
De Candolle, Prodromus. 
Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. 
Michadx, Flora Boreali- Americana. 
"Walter, Flora Caroliniana. 
France. 
Italy. 
Britain and Anglo-America. 
Southern Indians. 
Engravings. Catesby, Natural History of Carolina; Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum, ii., figure 186; and the figures 
lelow. 
Specific Characters. Leaves oblong or elliptic, obtuse at both ends, crenately sawed, and, with the branch- 
lets, glabrous. Flowers in subsessile lateral umbels. De Candolle, Prodromus. 
Description. 
"The firm Cassine, endures the wrecking storm, 
And changeful season, by Tradition styl'd 
The boon of Heaven, and round Hygeia's fane 
Wreaths a bright garland, when her priestesses, 
Clad in their meek and unpretending skill, 
Its aid demand." 
Tkaits op the Aborigines. 
1HE Ilex vomitoria is 
an elegant evergreen 
tree or shrub, usually 
growing to a height 
>f twelve or fifteen feet in its natural habitat, 
ind somewhat higher in a state of cultivation, 
rhe flowers, which put forth in June. 
are 
vhitish, and are succeeded by smooth, red 
)erries, that are ripe in October, and like 
hose of the European holly, remain upon the 
ranches during the winter. 
Geography, History, fyc. The emetic holly 
s found in moist, shady places, from Virginia 
o the Floridas, and was introduced into Brit- 
lin in 1770. It was cultivated by Miller in 
he physic garden at Chelsea, and in several 
)ther collections in the neighbourhood of Lon- 
lon, till the severe winter of 1789, when most 
)f the plants were destroyed. Other plants 
vere afterwards raised from seeds in that country, and have ever since resisted 
he cold of ordinary winters without protection. 
In France, it has been cultivated for a 
lis garden at the Barriere Chaillot. at Paris 
Legendary Allusions. It is said that the true cassena is regarded by many of 
;he southern tribes of the American Indians, as a holy plant, being used by them 
luring their religious rites and solemn councils, to clear the stomach and the 
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