FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 359 



Hollyleaf Cherry. 

 Primus ilicifolia (Nutt.) Walpers. 



DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS. 



Hollyleaf cherry is the most distinct of Pacific cherries on account of its 

 evergreen holly-like foliage (fig. 168). Locally known as " islay," "Spanish 

 wild cherry," and " Mountain evergreen cherry." 



Fig. 108. — Promts ilicifolia. 



Most often a dense, prickly shrub from 2 to 4 feet high on dry. rocky slopes, 

 hut in sheltered canyons sometimes from 20 to -'< Ceel high and from lo to 1-' 

 inches through ; as a tree, more often about 10 feet high, with a very thickly 



