Myrtle Leaved Dahoon 



625 



Fig. S7S. — Beadle's Holly. 



6. BEADLE'S HOLLY — Hex Beadlei Ashe 



Inhabiting rocky woods of the moiintainous portions of North Carolina, Ten- 

 nessee, and Alabama, and usually a 

 shrub, this sometimes becomes a 

 small tree. 



The twigs are round, quite 

 smooth, and brownish or dark gray. 

 The deciduous leaves are membra- 

 nous, often crowded, elliptic, ovate 

 or suborbicular, broadest either 

 about or below the middle, 3 to 8 

 cm. long, sharp or taper-pointed, 

 rounded or tapering at the base, and 

 sharply toothed on the margin; they 

 are Ught green and finely hairy 

 above, paler and densely hairy with 

 prominent midrib beneath ; the leaf- 

 stalks are about i cm. long and 

 hairy. The flowers are on short 

 hairy pedicels in few-flowered clus- 

 ters; the calyx is hairy, about 2 

 mm. broad, its lobes blunt; the corolla is 5 to 6 mm. across. The fruit is a bright 

 red drupe, oblong-globose, 6 to 8 mm. long; the nutlets are strongly ribbed. 



This may be a hairy form of the preceding species. 



7. MYRTLE LEAVED DAHOON 

 Hex myrtifolia Walter 



This straggling shrub sometimes be- 

 comes a tree with an ascending or curved 

 trunk, and stiff, upright, slender branches. 

 It occurs in cypress swamps and wet 

 woods in the pinelands of North Carolina 

 to Florida and Louisiana. Its maximum 

 height is 9 meters, with a trunk diameter 

 of 3 dm. 



The bark is thin and nearly white. The 

 twigs are slender, gray to brown, and nearly 

 smooth. The leaves are thick, leathery 

 and persistent, narrowly oblong or Unear, 

 or on vigorous shoots nearly oval, i to 4 

 cm. long, bristle-pointed, tapering to the base, entire and somewhat revolute on the 



Fig. 576. — Myrtle Leaved Dahoon. 



