52 Holly (Ilicinea) 



(i) Genus ILEX, L. (Holly, etc.) 

 Fig. 10. Ilex montana, T. and G. /. montuola, G. 



Flowers, with their parts in fours or fives (or rarely in 

 sixes). Sepals, delicately fringed with fine hairs. 

 Staminate flowers usually in clusters ; pistillate 

 usually solitary, with very short stems. 



Leaves, three to five inches long, egg-shape or long oval, 

 sharply toothed, mostly smooth. Apex and base, 

 pointed. 



Fruit, the size of a pea ; fleshy, red or purple. Nutlets, 

 four to six, each finely lined along the back ; a drupe. 



Found, in damp woods in the Catskill and Tahonic 

 Mountains, and in Cattaraugus County, N. Y., 

 through Pennsylvania as far east as Northampton 

 County, and southward along the Alleghanies. 



A shrub sometimes taking the size and shape of a 

 small tree. 



Soft Ilex. /. mollis, Gray. 



This species quite closely resembles the preceding, 

 except in these items : 



Flowers, the staminate clusters with very many blossoms. 

 Leaves, soft, downy beneath. 



Found, in Burgeons Gap, Alleghanies of Pennsylvania, 

 and along the mountains in the Southern States. 



Fig. ii. Winterberry. Black Alder. I. vertidllata ( L.), Gray. 



Flowers, the staminate in stemless clusters, with the parts 

 in fours, fives, or sixes ; the pistillate, solitary or 

 clustered, with the parts in sixes (or rarely in fives, 

 sevens, or eights). Flower-stems, all very short. 

 July. 



