Vox,. II.] 



HOLLY FAMILY. 



393 



Hex verticillata tenuifolia Torr. Fl. North. U. S. 338. 1824. 

 Leaves broadly obovate, obtuse but mucronulate, membranous. Maine to New Jersey. 



Dex verticillata padifolia (Willd.) T. & G.; S. Wats. Bibl. 



Index, i: 160. 1878. 



Leaves smaller, broadly oval or nearly orbicular, thick. 

 Northern New York to Pennsylvania. 



8. Ilex laevigata (Pursh) A. Gray. Smooth 

 Winter-berry. (Fig. 2363.) 



Prinos laevigatus Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 220. 1814. 

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



A shrub, much resembling the preceding species. 

 Twigs glabrous; leaves oval or oblong, thin, i / -2 / long, 

 mainly acute or acutish at each end, glabrous on both 

 sides or sometimes villous on the veins beneath, turn- 

 ing yellow in autumn, finely serrulate; staminate flow- 

 ers solitary or occasionally 2 together, on very slender 

 pedicels 5 "-9" long; fertile flowers solitary, much 

 shorter-peduncled; calyx-lobes acute, glabrous; drupes 

 larger than in /. verlicillata, orange-red, ripening 

 earlier, on stalks about equal to their diameter. 



In swamps, Maine to Pennsylvania and Virginia. 

 Blooms earlier than the preceding. May-June. 



2. ILICIOIDES Dumont. Bot. Cult. 4: 127. pi. /. 1802. 



[NEMOPANTHES Raf. Journ. Phys. 89: 96. 1819. 



A glabrous shrub, with slender-petioled oblong deciduous leaves, and polygamo-dioe- 

 cious axillary small flowers. Calyx of the staminate flowers none, that of the pistillate 

 minute, 4-5-toothed. Petals 4-5, distinct, linear. Stamens 4 or 5, free from the corolla; an- 

 thers ovoid-globose. Ovary 3-5-lobed, 3~5-celled; 

 ovules i in each cavity; stigmas 3-5, sessile. Drupe 

 subglobose. Nutlets 4 or 5. [Greek, resembling holly.] 

 A monotypic genus of eastern North America. 



i. Ilicioides mucronata (L.) Britton. Wild 

 or Mountain Holly. (Fig. 2364.) 



Vaccinium mucronatum L. Sp. PI. 350. 1753. 

 Nemopanlhes fascicularis Raf. Journ. Phys. 89: 97. 1819. 

 N. Canadensis DC. Mem. Soc. Gen. i: 450. 1821. 

 /. mucronata Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5: 217. 1894. 



A shrub, 6-8 high, with ash-colored bark. Leaves 

 elliptic or obovate, X'~ 2/ l n gi acutish or mucronate at 

 the apex, obtuse or acute at the base, entire or with a 

 few small teeth; petioles 3 // -6 // long; flowers of both 

 kinds solitary, or the staminate sometimes 2-4 toge- 

 ther; pedicels very slender, often \%' long; drupe 

 red, 3 // -4 // in diameter; nutlets faintly ribbed. 



In swamps, Nova Scotia to western Ontario, south to 

 Wisconsin, Indiana and Virginia. May, 



Family 65. CELASTRACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 119. 1836. 



STAFF-TREE FAMILY. 



Trees or shrubs, often climbing. Leaves alternate or opposite, simple. 

 Stipules, when present, small and caducous. Flowers regular, generally per- 

 fect, small. Pedicels commonly jointed. Calyx 4~5-lobed or parted, persistent, 

 the lobes imbricated. Petals 4-5, spreading. Stamens inserted on the disk, 

 alternate with the petals. Disk conspicuous, flat or lobed. Ovary sessile, its 

 base distinct from or confluent with the disk, mostly 3-5-celled; style short, 

 thick; stigma entire or 3-5-lobed; ovules 2 in each cell, anatropous. Fruit (in 

 our species) a somewhat fleshy dehiscent 2-5-celled pod. Seeds arilled; embryo 

 large; cotyledons foliaceous. 



About 40 genera and 350 species, widely distributed in warm and temperate regions. 

 Leaves opposite; large erect or decumbent shrubs; fruit 3-5 lobed; aril red. I. Euonymus. 



2. Pachystima. 



3. Celastrus. 



low spreading shrubs; fruit oblong; aril whitish. 

 Leaves alternate; woody vine. 



i. EUONYMUS L,. Sp. PI. 197. 1753. 



Shrubs, with opposite petioled entire or serrate leaves, and perfect cymose axillary green- 

 ish or purple flowers. Calyx 4-5-cleft, the lobes spreading or recurved. Petals 4 or 5, in- 



