AQUIFOLIACEAE ( HOLLY FAMILY) 555 



Var. m611is (Gray) Britton. Leaves soft-downy beneath. (7. mollis Gray.") 

 — Taconic Mts., Mass. (Hoffmann) to N. C. At the South appearing to pass 

 without clear limits into a form with shorter rounder leaves and tomentose 

 caJyx (7. Beadlei Ashe). 



§ 3. PRInOS Gray. Parts of the sterile flowers commonly in 4's, 5's, or 6''s, 

 those of the fertile flowers commonly in G's (rarely in 5's, 7's, or 8's) ; nut- 

 lets smooth and even ; shrubs. 



* Leaves deciduous ; fruit red or yellow. 



6. I. verticillata (L.) Gray. (Black Alder, Wixterberry.) Leaves 3-7 

 cm. long, oval, obovate, or wedge-lanceolate, pointed, acute at base, serrate, 

 downy chiefly on the veins beneath; flowers all very short-peduncled ; calyx- 

 lobes ciliate on the margins; fruit red. — Low grounds, common. May, June. 

 Forma chrysocarpa Robinson. Fruit yellow, — Georgetown, Mass. (Mrs. 

 Horner). 



\'ar. tenuifblia (Torr.) Wats. Leaves thinner, smoother, pellucid-puncticv- 

 late under a lens ; fertile flowers more inclined to be solitary. (7. bronxensis 

 Britton.) — A northeastern woodland form, N. S. to Ont., Mich., and N. J. 



Var. cyclophylla Robinson. Leaves small, suborbicular, finely pubescent 

 upon the veins beneath, tending to be clustered at the ends of the branchlets. 

 (Var. padifolia Britton, not T. & G.) — Shores of L. Erie ; a similar form with 

 small and clustered but narrower leaves on Mt. Desert I., Me. (Band): 



Var. padifblia (Willd.) T. & G. Leaves 5-12 cm. long, as in the typical 

 form, but tomentulose on the surface (as well as the vems) beyieath. — Mass. to 

 Minn., and south w. 



7. I. laevigata (Pursh) Gray. (Smooth Winterberry.) Leaves lanceolate 

 or oblong-lanceolate, appressed-serrulate. shining above, mostly glabrous be- 

 neath ; sterile flowers long-peduncled ; calyx-lobes not ciliate. — Wet grounds, 

 N. H. to the mts. of N. C. June. — Fruit larger than in the last, ripening 

 earlier. Forma Herv^yi Robinson. Fruit bright yellow. — New Bedford, 

 Mass. (Hervey). 



* * Leaves coriaceous, evergreen, shining, often dotted beneath ; fruit black.- 



8. I. glabra (L.) Gray. (Ixkberry.) Shrub, 6-9 dm. high, the twigs ashy- 

 puberulent ; leaves ivedge-lanceolate or oblong, sparingly toothed toward the 

 apex, smooth, 1.4— 4.8 cm. long, 8-15 mm. wide ; peduncles (1.2 cm. long) of 

 the sterile flowers 3-6-flowered, of the fertile 1-flowered ; calyx-teeth rather 

 blunt. — Low sandy grounds, s. w. N. S. ; and from Cape Ann, Mass., to Fla. 

 and La., near the coast. June. 



9. I. luci^a (Ait.) T. & G. Larger shrub, with glabrous or viscid-puberulent 

 hmnchlets ; leaves obovate to oblanceolate. coriaceous, entire or remotely toothed, 

 short-acuminate, mostly 3-7.5 cm. long, 1.6-2.8 cm. wide, on thickish petioles 

 0-10 mm. in length. — Swamps, Va. to Fla. and La. 



2. NEMOPANTHUS Raf. Mountain Holly 



Flowers polygamo-dioecious. Calyx in the sterile flowers of 4-5 minute 

 deciduous teeth, in the fertile ones oljsolete. Petals 4-5, oblong-linear, spread- 

 ing, distinct. Stamens 4-5 ; filaments slender. Drupe with 4-5 bony nutlets, 

 light red. — A much branched shrub, with ash-gray^ bark, alternate deciduous 

 entire or slightly toothed smooth leaves on slender petioles. Flowers on long 

 slender axillary peduncles, solitary or sparingly clustered. (Name said by 

 the author to mean "flower with a filiform peduncle," presumably from 

 vrifxa, a thread, ttoi's, foot, and 6.vdos, flower.) 



1. N. mucronata (L.) Trel. Erect. 0.3-3 m. high ; bark gray; leaves ellip- 

 tic-oblong, thin, .slightly paler beneath. — (Xemopanthps fascicularis Raf.; 

 Ilicioides mucronata Britton.) — Damp cool woods, from the mts. of Va. to 

 Nfd., Ind., Wise, and northw. 



