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Aquifoliaceae. 



Nemopanthus. Mountain Holly. 

 ( Family Aquifoliaceae ) . 



Shrubs: deciduous. Twigs 

 rather slender, often remaining 

 short, glabrous, and more or less 

 glaucous, with finely fissured cor- 

 tex when old: pith small, con- 

 tinuous. Buds rather small, soli- 

 tary, sessile, ovoid, usually at- 

 tenuate at tip, with about 2 ciliate 

 exposed scales. Leaf-scars alter- 

 nate, clustered at the ends, 

 slightly raised, triangular or 

 crescent-shaped: bundle-trace 1: 

 stipule-scars lacking. (Ilicioi- 

 des). 



Winter-characters are pictured 

 by Schneider, f. 127. 



The mountain holly differs 

 from the true hollies in lacking 

 the short sepals that are to be 

 found at the base of holly ber- 

 ries, so that when its long- 

 stalked red fruits are present this aids in an otherwise diffi- 

 cult recognition. 



Twigs from glaucous purplish becoming gray. N. mucronata. 

 Like Prunus, Quercus, Rhamnus and other generic names 

 of woody plants, Evonymus proves puzzling as to the agree- 

 ment of its specific names. Following earlier botanists, Lin- 

 naeus treated it as masculine and in this he has been fol- 

 lowed by most writers though Schneider, as well as Rehder 

 in the Standard Cyclopedia, has considered it to be a femi- 

 nine fourth-declension noun because some of the species are 

 unquestionably trees. The practice of Linnaeus is followed 

 here, and agreements are made masculine. 



