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ILICACEAE. 



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5. Ilex decidua Walt. Swamp or Meadow 



Holly. (Fig. 2360.) 

 Hex decidua Walt. Fl. Car. 241. 1788. 



A shrub, or small tree, with a maximum height of 

 30 and truuk diameter of S' or 10'. Twigs light gray, 

 glabrous; leaves obovate or spatulatc-oblong, 1%'-$' 

 long, 4 // -8 // wide, crenate, deciduous, dark green, 

 glabrous and with impressed veins on the upper sur- 

 face, paler and pubescent beneath, especially on the 

 midrib, acute or cuneate at the base, blunt at the apex 

 or sometimes emarginate; pedicels slender, i-flow- 

 ered, several often appearing from near the same 

 point, bractless; calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse; drupe red, 

 depressed-globose, 2 // -3 // in diameter; nutlets ribbed. 



In swamps and low grounds, southern Virginia to 

 Florida, west to Kansas, Missouri and Texas. Wood 

 hard, white; weight per cubic foot 46 Ibs. Flowers 

 unfolding with the leaves in May. 



6. Ilex monticola A. Gray. Large- 

 leaved Holly. (Fig. 2361.) 



/. monlana T. & G.; A. Gray, Man. 276. 1848. 



Not Griseb. 



Ilex monticola A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 264. 1856. 

 Hex Amelanchiervzr. monticola Wood. Bot. 



& Flor. 208. 1873. 



A shrub, or occasionally forming a slen- 

 der erect tree, with a maximum height of 

 about 40. Leaves rather thin, decidu- 

 ous, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 2'-6' long, 

 #'-2#' wide, sharply serrate or ser- 

 rulate, acuminate or acute, glabrous on 

 both sides or somewhat pubescent be- 

 neath, especially along the veins; petioles 

 4"-8" long; pedicels i-flowcred, bractless, 

 the sterile clustered, the fertile mostly 

 solitary; calyx- lobes acute or acutish, 

 ciliate, not hairy; drupes red, globose- 

 ovoid, 1"-$" in diameter; nutlets ribbed. 



Mountain woods, New York and Pennsylvania, south to North Carolina and Alabama. May. 



Hex monticola mollis (A. Gray) Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5: 217. 1894. 

 Hex mollis A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 306. 1867. 



I<eaves proportionately broader, iJi'-2&' long, i'-a' wide, broadly ovate or oval, short-acumi- 

 nate, densely soft-pubescent beneath, glabrous, or with a few scattered hairs above, becoming 

 glabrate with age; calyx-lobes downy-pubescent. In mountain woods, Pennsylvania to Georgia. 



7. Ilex verticillata (L,. ) A. Gray. 



Virginia Winter-berry. Black Alder. 



Fever-bush. (Fig. 2362.) 



Prinos verlicillalus I,. Sp. PI. 330. 1/53- 



Ilex verticillata A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 264. 1856. 



A shrub, 6-25 high. Twigs glabrous or 

 slightly pubescent; leaves oval, obovate or 

 oblong-lanceolate, 2 / -3 / long, about i' wide, 

 acute or acuminate at the apex, acute or obtus- 

 ish at the base, rather thick and coriaceous.dark 

 green and nearly glabrous above, pubescent, 

 especially on the veins beneath, sharply ser- 

 rate; stamiuate cymes clustered, 2-10- flowered, 

 the fertile i-3-flowered; pedicels 2-bractcd; 

 calyx-lobes obtuse, ciliate; drupes bright red, 

 (rarely white), clustered so as to appear ver- 

 ticillate, about 3" in diameter; nutlets smooth. 



In swamps, Nova Scotia to Florida, west to 

 western Ontario, Wisconsin and Missouri. The 

 leaves turn black in autumn. June-July. 



