306 AQUIFOLIACE.E. (HOLLY FAMILY.) 



1. AQUIFOUUM, Tourn. Parts of the flower commonly in fours, sometimes 

 in fives or sixes: drupe red, its nutlets ribbed, veiny, or one-grooved on the back: 

 leaves (mostly smooth) coriaceous and evergreen. 



* Leaves armed with spiny teeth : trees. 



1. I. opaca, Ait. (AMERICAN HOLLY.) Leaves oval, flat, the wavy 

 margins with 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 mope 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. AQUIFOLIUM, L.). 



# # Leaves serrate or entire, not spiny : shrubs. 



2. I. Cassine, L. (CASSENA. YAUPON.) Leaves lance-ovate or elliptical, 

 crenate (!' - 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 Indians. 



3. I. myrtifblia, Walt. Leaves linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong, sparingly 

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

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

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



4. I. Dahodn, Walt. (DAHOON HOLLY.) Leaves oblanceolate or oblong, 

 entire, or sharply 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. PRINOlDES. Parts of the (polygamous or dioecious) flowers in fours or fives 

 (rarely in sixes) : drupe red or purple, the nutlets striate-muny-ribbed on the back: 

 leaves deciduous : shrubs. 



5. I. decidua, Walt. Leaves wedge-oblong or lance-obovate, obtusely serrate, 

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

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

 acute. Wet grounds, Virginia, Illinois, and southward. May. 



6. I. monticola, Gray. Leaves ovate or lance-oblong, ample (3' -5' long), 

 taper-pointed, thin-membranaceous, smooth, sharply serrate ; fertile flowers very 

 short-peduncled ; calyx ciliate. (I. ambigua, Torr. I. montana, Ed. 1, not 

 Prinos montanus, Sw.) Damp woods, Taconic and Catskill Mountains, and 

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

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

 ghanies. May. 



7. I. mollis, Gray. Leaves soft downy beneath, oval, ovate, or oblong, taper- 

 pointed at both ends, especially at the apex, thin-membranaceous, sharply ser- 

 rulate ; 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, Pursh, not Michx.) 

 Burgoon's Gap, Alleghanies of Pennsylvania ( J. R. Lowrie, Porter), and along 

 the mountains in the Southern States. Resembles the last. 



