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ORDER LXXIV. AQUIFOLIACE^E. Hollyworts. 



Shrubs or trees with alternate, simple leaves without stipules ; 



flotcers small, axillary, sometimes polygamous, with a minute free calyx; 



corolla 4-6-parted, hypo.rynou3, imbricate in the bud ; 



stamens on the very short tube of the corolla alternate with its petals; 



ovary free, becoming a drupe-like fruit with 2-6 stones or nutlets. 



Analysis of the Genera. 



| Flowers habitually 4-parted. Drupe with 4 bony, sulcate nutlets. ILEX. 1 



$ Flowers habitually 4-parted. Drupe with 4 horny smooth nutlets. Shrub 4- 



6f., with oblong entire leaves. Pedicels slender. Dnipes red. NEMOPAXTHES. 



$ Flowers habitually 6-parted. Berry with 6 (.1, 8) smooth cartilaginous seeds. PHINOS. 9 



1. ILEX. Holly. 



Flowers 4- (rarely 5-) parted, mostly perfect but many abortive. Calyx 

 4-toothed, persistent. Petals 4, slightly united at base. Stamens 4. 

 Stigmas 4 or united into 1. Drupe red, the 4 bony nutlets ribbed and fur- 

 rowed on the back. Flowers white, single or clustered in the axils. 

 L opa'ca. American Holly. A handsome evergreen tree. 15-30f. high, in woods. Mas. 

 to Florida. It has thick, smooth, oval, toothed leaves, ppinescent at apex and 

 margin. Flowers clustered, June. Drupes ripe in late autumn. 

 The other species, 6 in number, are very rarely found growing N. of Maryland. 



2. PRINOS. Winter-berry. 



Flowers perfect but often fruitless. Stamens 6 (rarely fewer in the bar- 

 ren, rarely more in the fertile flowers). Berry 6-seeded, seeds with a 

 smooth cartilaginous testa. Sluubs with small white flowers. 



1 P. verticilla'tus. Black Alder. A shrub 7-12f., very ornamental in fruit, found in wet 



places. The bark is nearly black. Leaves small, elliptical, pointed, pubescent be- 

 neath. Berries scarlet, in close bunches as if verticillate, all winter. 



2 P. glaber. Ink-berry. Shrub 3-4f., with thick, shining, wedge-lanceolate, evergreen 



leaves toothed at the end. Berries black. The other (4) species are less common. 



ORDER LXXV. STYKACACE^]. Storaxworts. 



Trees and xhmbs with alternate simple leaves, perfect flowers, 4-8-parted ; 

 stamens 2-5 times as many as the petals and inserted on their united bases 

 <it,yle\. Ovary adherent. Fruit 1-o-seeded. Mostly Southern plants. 



Analysis of the Genera. 



1 STYRAX. Storax. Shrubs in wet grounds (Va. to Fla.), with drooping racemes of wh-ie 



showy flowers. Stamens twice as many ae the petals. April-May. 



2 HALE SIA. Snow-drop Tree. Trees 10-50f., in woods, Va. to Fla., often cult. Fls pen- 



dulous, white, showy, earlier than the abruptly pointed leaves. Two kinds. 



3 STM'PLOCOS. Small tree. 10-20f. Flu. Yellow. Stamens oo. Fruit 1 -seeded. S. 



