306 AQUIFOLIACKliE. (lIOLLY FAMILY.) 



§ 1. AQUIFOLIUM, Tourn. Paiis of the /lower commovlij in fours, sometime* 

 mJir(S or sixes: dnijK red, its nutlets ribbed, veiny, or one-yrooned on the back: 

 leaves (mostly smooth] coriaceous and eceii/reen. 



* Leaves armed with s/iiny teeth : trees. 



1. I. op^ca, Ait. (Amekican Holly.) Leaves oval, flat, the wavy 

 margins witli scattered spiny teeth ; flowers in loose clusters along the base of 

 the young branches and in the axils; calyx-teeth acute. — Moist woodlands, 

 Maine to Pennsylvania, near the coast, and more common from Virginia 

 .southward. June. — Tree 20° -40° high; the deep green foliage less glossy, 

 the berries not so bright red, and their nutlets not so veiny, as in the European 

 Holly (I. AguiFOLiiTM, L.). 



* * Leat^es serrate or entire, not spiny : shrubs. 



2. I. Cassine, Ij. (Cassen.v. Yaupon.) Leares lance-orate or elliptical, 

 a-enatc. (l'- 1|' long) ; flower-clusters nearly sessile, smooth ; calyx-teeth obtuse. — • 

 Virginia and southward along the coast. May. — Leaves used for tea by the 

 people along the coast, as they were to make the celebrated black drink of the 

 North Carolina Inilians. 



3. I. myrtif61ia, Walt. Leaves linear-lanceolate or llnear-oblonff, sparingly 

 and sharply serrate or entire (1' long); peduncles slender and 3- 9-tlowered, or 

 the more fertile shorter and 1-flowered, smooth; caly.v-teeth acute. — Coast of 

 Virginia and southward. May. — Probably a var. or the next. 



4. I. Daho6n, Walt. (Dahoon Holly.) Leaves oblanceolate or oblong, 

 entire, or shur ply serrate towards the apex, with revolute margins (2' -3' long), 

 the midrib and peduncles pubescent ; calyx-teeth acute. — Swamps, coast of Virginia 

 and southward. May, June. 



§ 2. PRINOIDES. Paris of the {poly(/amous or dlarlons) Jlowers in fours or Jivrs 

 {rarely In sires) : drape red or purple, the millets striute-many-rlbbed on the buck: 

 leaves deciduous : shrubs. 



5. I. decidua, Walt. Leaves iccd//e-ublong or lunce-obovafe, obtusely serrate, 

 downy on the midrib beneath, shining above, becoming thickish ; peduncles of tho 

 sterile flowers longer than the petioles, of the fertile short ; calyx-teeth smooth, 

 acute. — Wet grounds, Virginia, Illinois, and .southward. Mav. 



6. I. montieola, Gray. Leaved ovate or lance-oblong, ample (.T- 5' long), 

 taper-pointed, thin-mcmbranaceous, smooth, sharply sen-ate ; fertile flowers very 

 Bhort-ped uncled ; calyx ciliate. (L ambigua, Torr. L montkna, Ed. 1, not 

 Prinos montanus, >S'«;.) — Damp woods, Taconic and Catskill Mountains, and 

 Cattaraugus Co., New York (G. W. Clinton), through Pennsylvania (cast to 

 Nortluuuptou Co. Mr. Wolle, Prof. T. Green), and southward along the Alle- 

 fhanics. May. 



7. I. moUiS, Gray. Leaves soft downy benntlh, oval, ovate, or oblong, taper- 

 ijointcd at both ends, especially at the ajK-x, thin-membranaccous, sharply ser- 

 tulatc ; sterile flowers very numerous in umbel-like clusters, the pedicels shorter 

 than the petiole and (with the calyx) soft-downy, the fertile peduncles very 

 short. (Prinos pubescens, Michx. herb. P. ambiguus, Purx/t, not MIchx.) — 

 Burgeon's Gap, Alleghanies of Pennsylvania (.7. It. Lowrie, Porter), and alony 

 the mountains in the Southern States. — Resembles the last. 



