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The Hollies 



Fig. 580. —Holly, Washington, D.C. 



deep green and shining above, paler beneath. The flower clusters are short-stalked 

 on the staminate plant, but quite sessile on the pistillate, the smooth pedicels 3 to 6 

 mm. long; the 4 cah^x-lobes are triangular-ovate and blunt; corolla white, 5.5 mm. 

 across, its lobes oval or obovate and blunt. The fruit is a dark red globose 

 drupe, 5 to 6 mm. in diameter on a short stalk; the nutlets are but shghtly ribbed. 



The wood is hard, close-grained, nearly white; its specific gravity is about 0.73. 



The branches with their brilliant fruit are used in winter decoration like those 



