Handbook of Trees of the Northern States and Canada. 319 



The Deciduous Holly throughout most of its I 

 range is only a shrub, but in localities west | 

 of the Mississippi, particularly in Arkansas, 

 it becomes a small straggling tre<' occasionally 

 'iii ft. in height, with crooked or inclined trunk 

 6 or 8 in. in diameter and covered with a 

 smooth pale gray more or less mottled bark, 

 it inhabits swampy places overhanging the 

 borders of lakes and streams in company with 

 the Red-bud, Prickly Ash, Soapberry, Missis- 

 sippi Hackberry, Rusty Nannyberry, Rough- 

 leaved Dogwood, Cypress, etc. In such localities 

 in Autumn it is one of the most beauti- 

 ful objects of these interesting regions, par- 

 ticularly after the leaves have fallen and its 

 conspicuous red fruit persists long upon its 

 leafless branches. 



Its wood is rather heavy, a cu. ft. when 

 absolutely dry weighing 46.24 lbs., hard, close- 

 grained and creamy white in color. 



Leaves deciduous, lance-obovate or spatulatp, 

 l%-3 in. long, cuneate at base, acute, obtuse or 

 emarginate at apex, erenate, glabrous dark green 

 above, paler and pubescent on the midribs beneath 

 and the petioles ; and branchlets silvery gray. 

 Flotcrrs (May) mainly on growth of the previous 

 season, mostly in pairs, with slender pedicels, 

 without bractlets, those of the staminate about 

 Vo in. long and those of the pistillate shorter : 

 calyx lol)es triangular. Fruit ripening in early 

 autumn and often persisting until spring. Va in. 

 in diameter, red. depressed globose with pedicels 

 scarcely % in. long : nutlet ribbed. 





