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Oeder LXXIV. AQUIFOLIACE^. HoUyworts. 



Shrubs or t)'ees with alternate, simple leaves without stipules ; 



flowers small, axillaiy, sometimes p()l3'gamous, with a minvite free calyx; 



cm'olla 4-6-parted, liypogynous, imbricate in the bud ; 



stamens on the very short tube of the corolla alternate with its petals; 



ovary free, becoming a drupe-like fruit with 2-6 stones or nutlets. 



Analysis of the Genera, 



§ Flowers habitnally 4-partecl. Drupe with 4 bony, sulcate nutlet?. Ilex. 1 



§ Flowers habitually 4-parted. Drupe with 4 horny smooth nutlets. Shrub 4- 



6f., with oblong entire leaves. Pedicels slender. Drupes red. Nemopanthes, 



§ Flowers habitually 6-parted. Berry with 6 (.7, 8) smooth cartilaginous seeds. Prinos. 2 



1. ILEX. Kelly. 



Flowers 4- (rarely 5-) parted, mostly perfect but many abortive. Calyx 

 4-tootlied, persistent. Petals 4, slightly united at base. Stamens 4. 

 Stigmas 4 or united into 1. Drupe red, the 4 bony nutlets ribbed and fur- 

 rowed on the back. Flowers white, single or clustered in the axils. 

 I. opa'ca. American Holly. A handsome evergreen tree. 15-30f. high, in Avoods, Mass. 

 to Florida. It has thick, smooth, oval, toothed leaves, spinescent at apex and 

 margin. Flowers clustered, June. Drupes ripe in late autumn. 

 The other species, 6 in number, are very rarely found growing N. of Maryland. 



2. PEINOS. Winter-berry. 



Flowers perfect but often fruitless. Stamens 6 (rarely fewer in the bar- 

 ren, rarely more in the fertile flowers). Berry 6-seeded, seeds with a 

 smooth cartilaginous testa. Shrubs with small white flowers. 



1 p. verticilla'tus. Black Alder. A shrub 7-12f., very ornamental in fruit, found in wet 



places. The bark is nearly black. Leaves small, elliptical, pointed, pubescent be- 

 neath. Berries scarlet, in close bunches as if verfidllate, all winter. 



2 P. glaber. Ink-berry. Shrub 3-4r., with thick, shining, wedge-lanceolate, evergreen 



leaves toothed at the end. Berries black. The other (4) species are less common. 



Oeder LXXV. STYRACACE^. Storaxworts. 



Trees and shrubs with alternate simple leaves, perfect flowers, 4-8-parted ; 

 stamens 2-5 times as many as the petals and inserted on their united bases 

 style 1. Ovary adherent. Fruit 1-5-seeded. Mostly Southern plants. 



Analysis of the Genera. 



1 STYRAX. Storax. Shrubs in wet grounds (Ya. to FJa.), with drooping racemes of white 



showy flowers. Stamens twice as many as the petals. A2)ril-3Iay. 



2 HALE'SIA. Snow-clroi-) Tree. Trees 10-50f., in woods, A"a. to Fla., often cult. Fls. pen- 



dulous, white, showy, earlier than the abruptly pointed leaves. Two kinds. 

 8 SYM'PLOOOS, Small tree, 10-20f. Fls. yellow. Stamens oo . Fruit 1-seeded. S. 



