Ilex. AQUirOLIACE.E. 389 



170. /. casainoidts. Link, Emiiii. i. 148. /. laurijh/iu, Nutt. Am. Jniir. Sci. v. 289. Aytiia 

 palustris, Kaf. Svlv. Telliir. 47. .1. olxwaUi, lUi. 1. e. 48. .1. /„i, roj,/n/la, Kaf. 1. c. — 

 North Ciiroliiia, Curtis, to l-lori.la. (Me.\., \V. Iii.l.) Willi ohlameolate leave.s 1 to 3 

 inches long and scaively over lines wide, and sometimes 8 or 10 drupes on a naked shoot, 

 it is var. an<justik6lia, Willd. (Spec. i. 709 ; Sargeut, Silv. i. 1 10, t. 40, f . 8 ; /. ut„justifolia, 

 Willd. Euum. 172; I. lif/uslrimi, Ell. Sk. ii. 080 ; ? /. \y\ttso,iiuwi, Spaeli, Hist. Veg. ii. 

 429), of ali.mt the range, scarcely to be maintained, and merging into 



Var. myrtifolia, Sakuknt. Leaves crowded, ver\ narrowly elliptical, revolute, lesa 

 tlian an iiiih long, mucrouate, mostly entire and glabrous: drupes mo.stly solitarv an<l shortr 

 stalked. —Gard. ik, For. ii. 610, & Silv. i. 110, t. 47. /. myrtifolia, Walt. Car. '241 ; Nouv. 

 Duham. i. 10, t. 4; Maximowicz, \. c. 20, 31. /. iJnhoon, var. in>/rli/olia, Chapm. Fl. 269; 

 'I'release, 1. c. 346. /. rusmurinijhlia, Lam. 111. i. 3.")C. /. li<juslri/olia, Don, .Svst. ii. 19. — 

 Suiitli Carolina to Florida aud Alabama. 

 I. VOmitoria, Ait. (Casskna, Yaupox.) Occa.sionally arborescent : twigs, petioles, and 

 occasionally pediceis puberulent: leaves elliptical, about an inch long, very obtuse or emar- 

 giuate, coarsely creuate-serrate with a deciduous gland at each sinus, rather glossy ; petioles 

 1 to 2 lines long: sterile cymes 3-9-flowere(l, with a short common peduncle (4 lines long); 

 the fertile sessile, 1-3 flowered : calyx-segments rounded, scarcely ciliate : drupe globose, 2 

 or 3 lines iu diameter, on pedicel of" ecjual length, contracted below the stigma.— Kcw. i. 

 170; Sargent, Silv. i. Ill, t. 48 ; Dippel, 1. c. 508. /. Cassiue, Walt. Car. 241 ; Maximowicz, 

 1. c. 22 ; Trelease, 1. c. 340 ; Hale, U. S. Uep. Agr. Bot. Div. Hull. 14. /. Ca.ssine, $, L. Spec, 

 i. 125. /. Cussena, Michx. Fl. ii. 229. /. liij tint r inn, Jacq. Collect, iv. 105, & Ic Kar. ii. 9, 

 t. 310. I. Floridana, Lam. 111. i. 350. /. relir/iosu, Bart. Fl. \'irg. 60. /. {KiiHtila) rainn- 

 losa, Kaf. Sylv. Tellur. 45. /. Caroliniana, Ltlsener, Bot. Ceutralbl. xlvii. 103. Cussiue 

 Ptniijua, L. Mant. ii. 220, iu part. C. Caroliniana, Lam. Diet. i. 652. C. ramuloaa, Kaf. Fl. 

 Lud. 110. Hierophyllus Cassine, Kaf. Med. Bot. ii. 8. Ai/eria Cussena, Kaf. Sylv. Tellur. 

 47. — North Carolina to Florida and Texas, northward to Arkansas. 



* * Flowers 4-6-merous : drupe red or purple ; nutlets as in the last: leaves deciduous. — 

 § Prinoides. 



-K- Cymes l-flowered, bractless : leaves fretiuently crowded on short spurs. 

 ++ Leaves oblanceolate. 

 I. decidua, Walt. Subarborescent : twigs glabrous, almost white in winter : leaves oblan- 

 ceolate or narrowly obovate, 2 or occasionally 3 inches long, acuminate to mostly obtuse or 

 emarginate, crenate-serrulate, cuneate into a short mostly j)ulierulent petiole, narrow Iv 

 grooved along the midrib al)ove and the other veins often somewhat impressed, pubescent 

 beneath, at least along the midrib: flowers appearing with the leaves: sterile peilicels 3 to 

 6 lines long: calyx-segments obtu.se to acute, not ciliate: drupe depressed-globose, about 

 3 lines in diameter, .scarcely exceeded by the pedicel ; style usually very short, occasionallv 

 half line long. — Car. 241 ; Maximowicz, 1. e. 30; Trelease, 1. c. 346; Sargent, Silv. i. 113, 

 t. 49; Dippel, 1. c. 510. /. prinoides, Ait. Kew. i. 109. /. aslivalis, Lam. Diet. iii. 147. 

 /. Prionites, Willd. Enum. Suppl. 8. Prinos deciduus, DC. Prodr. ii. 16. — North Carolina to 

 Kansas, southward to the Gulf. 



++ -H- Leaves lanceolate to ovate or ol)ovato. 

 = Fruiting pedicels 10 or 12 lines long. 

 I. longipes, Chapm. Large shrul): leaves thin, elliptical to broadly laiueolatc, about 3 

 inches long, emarginate or obtuse to blunt-pointed, low-serrate or crenate, especially above, 

 the ba.se mo.stly acute, sparingly ciliate with short thick hairs or slightly pubescent along the 

 impressed midrib on one or both surfaces, otherwise glabrous; jjetioles 3 or 4 lines long: 

 sterile pedicels to 8 lines long : drupe globose, about 4 lines in diameter, its filiform j)edicel 

 nearly an inch long: otherwise similar to the preceding. — Chapm. in Trclea.«e. 1. c. 346 ; 

 Trelea.se, Card. & For. iii. 344, 345, f. 46. — North Carolina. BiirUei/, to Tenne.«.see, Gat- 

 linger, south to Georgia, Chapman, Alabama, Bucl/ei/, and Louisiana, Ihummond. 



= = Fruitinir pedicels le.ss than half inch long: three closely related species perhaps 

 scarcely se])arable. 



I. ambigua, Chaim. Scarcely arboreous: twigs clierry-like. with largo lonticels. glabrous 

 or somewhat puberulous : leaves rather brt)adly lanceolate, elliptical, ovate, or obovate, three 



