Nemopanthus. AQl'IFOLI ACK.K. 391 



-♦— ■»— Leaves deciduous, thinner, not punctate : fruit 8uhgl(j|)ose, with sessile stigma, red 

 or cxcciitioiiallv jellow, mostly exceeding the pedicels. 



I. verticillata, Guav. (Black Aluku, Wintekhkhkv.) Tall loosely branche<i shrub, 

 ofteu SHiiuwliat j)ubesceut throughout when young : leaves lanceolate, oblanceolate, or ol>o- 

 vate, 1^ to 3 or rarely 4 inches long, mostly acuminate, rather coarsely serrate or biserrate, 

 veiny, usually loosely pubescent especially beneath, acute at base ; the downy petiole 3 to 6 

 lines long : sterile cymes fascicled, mostly siiort and 3-Howered ; the fertile I-3-flowered 

 from a very short bibracteate peduncle ; pcduinles and ])edicels mostly glabrous or glabres- 

 ceut : calyx-segments mostly obtuse, ciliate and often loos(dy pubescent : drupe often slightly 

 elongated, 3 lines in diameter.— Man. ed. 2, 264 ; Maximowicz, 1. c. 30; Trelea.xe, 1. c. 348; 

 Dippel, 1. c. 513 ; iMillspaugh, Med. PI. i. t. 106. Prinos verlicilliilus, L. Spec. i. 330; Lam. 

 111. t. 255, f. 1 ; Bigel. Med. Bot. iii. 141, t. 56 ; Barton, Fl. Med. t. 17 ; Guimp. ( »tto & Ilayne, 

 Abbild. llolzart. t. 56. P. padljhlius, Willd. Eiium. 394. P. confirttts. Munch, Meth. 4KI. 

 P. Cirouovii, Michx. Fl. ii. 236. — Canada to the (ireat Lakes, south to S. Carolina, Illinois, 

 and Alabama. (Japan.) A northeastern form with amjjle lanceolate or oblanceolate tliin 

 leaves, less pubescent and less veiny than usual, is var. tenuik6lia, Torr. Fl. N. & Midil, 

 States, 338. A northern form with the leaves smaller and more obovate than usual is var. 

 I'ADii'OLiA, Torr. & Gray in Wats. Bibl. Index, 160. The original Prinos pad if olius, Willd. 

 Enum. 394, is scarcely more than the common form of /. verticillata. 



I. laevigata, Gray. Lower rather compact shrub: twigs glabrous: leaves rather narrowly 

 lanceolate, mostly 1^ to 2 inches long, acute at both ends or subacuminate, low-serrulate, at 

 length veiny, glabrous or with a few persistent soft long hairs beneath, especially along the 

 midrib; the glal)rous or somewhat pubescent petiole 2 to 5 lines long: sterile Howers soli- 

 tary on bractless glabrous filiform pedicels often half inch or more long, or occasionally 

 in pedunded umbels of 3 ; the fertile solitary on shorter pedicels : calyx-segments mostly 

 acute, not pubescent but sometimes ciliate : drupe depressed-globose, usually 4 or 5 lines in 

 diameter. — Man. ed. 2, 264 ; Maximowicz, 1. c. 30 ; Trelea.se, 1. c. 348 ; Dippel, 1. c. 513 ; 

 Sargent, Gard. & For. iv. 220, f. 39. Prinos kcvigatus, Pursh, Fl. i. 220. — Massachusetts to 

 New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 



1. lanceolAta, Chapm. 1. c. 270, Trelease, 1. c. 348, is a doul)tful species. Prinos lanceolata, 

 Hill, Veg. Syst. xvi. 57, t. 61, from the fascicled leaves might be taken for a poorly drawn 

 /. deridita. 



2. NEMOPANTHUS, Raf. Mountain Holly. (Name from I'^/xa, 

 thread, Trov's, foot, and a.vOo's, flower, from the filiform peduncles.) — Shrub with 

 nearly exstipulate leaves. — Am. Monthly Mag. ii. 176, iv. 357, & Am. Jour. 

 Sci. i. 377. Nemopanthes, Raf. Jour. Phys. Ixxxix. 96; Benth. & Hook. Gen. 

 i. 357 ; Baill. Hist. PI. xi. 219 ; Trelease, Trans. St. Louis Acad. v. 349 ; 

 Kroufeld in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. iii. Ab. 5, 188. Nuttallia, DC. 

 Rapp. Jard. Genev. 1821, 44. lUcioides, Dumont-Cour. Bot. Cult. iv. 127. — 

 A single species. 



N. fascicularis, Kaf. Glabrous or nearly so: leaves often fascicled on spurs, mostly 1 to 

 \\ inches long, elli])tical, more or less acute at both ends, mucronate, entire or very low-ser- 

 rulate, thin but firm, finely reticulate-veiny, as in Vaccinium ; the petiole about 4 lines long : 

 pedicels solitary or clu.><tered, simple or the staminate exceptionally in 3's from a peduncle 

 of equal length, 6 to 14 lines long: flowers scarcely expanding over 2 lines: drupe red, dull, 

 ovoid, styleless, about 3 lines in diameter, on a filiform suberect pedicel ; nutlets obscurely 

 somewhat ribbed on the back. — Am. Monthly M.ag. iv. 357. Nemopanthes fascicularis, Kaf. 

 Jour. Phys. Ixxxix. 97. N. Canadensis, DC. M^m. Soc. Genev. i. 450, & PI. Rar. Genev. 8, 

 t. 3 ; Trelease, 1. c. 349. Ilex Canadensis, Michx. Fl. ii. 229, t.49. /. delicatuta. Barton, Fl. 

 Virg. 67. Prinos integrifoliiis. Ell. Sk. ii. 706. P. limrjipes, Kaf. Sylv. Tellur. 50. Suttal- 

 ha Canadensis, DC. Rapp. Jard. Genev. 1821, 44. Varrinium miirmnittum. L. Sjiec. i. 350. 

 Ilirioides mncronnla, Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, v. 217. — Newfoundlaud to New Jersey, Ohio, 

 and the Great Lakes. 



