Handbook of Teees of the Noktueen States and Oanada. 319 



The Deciduous Holly throughout most of its 

 range is only a slirub, but in localities west 

 of the Mississippi, particularly in Arkansas, 

 it becomes a small straggling tree occasionally 

 ■I'l ft. in height, with crooked or inclined trunk 

 6 or S in. in diameter and covered with a 

 smooth pale gray more or less mottled bark. 

 It inhabits swampy places overhanging the 

 borders of lakes and streams in company with 

 the Red-bud, Prickly Ash, Soapberry, Missis- 

 sippi Hackberry, Rusty Nannyberry, Rough- 

 leaved Dogwood. Cypress, etc. In sueli localities 

 in Autumn it .^s one of the most beauti- 

 ful objects of Ihese interesting regions, par- 

 ticularly after the leaves have fallen and its 

 conspicuous red fruit persists long upon its 

 leafless branches. 



Its wood is rather heavy, a cu. ft. when 

 ahsdlutcly dry weighing 4(1. '24 llis.. b.ird. close- 

 grained and creamy white Iti culor. 



Lrarrfi deciduous, lancc-obnvatc or spatnlate, 

 Pn-.*"! in. \oTiix. cuneate at base, acute, ohtiisi' or 

 pmarginate at apex, erenate, .i^labrous dark t^n^ai 

 above, paler and pubescent on tbe midribs liencnili 

 and the petioles: and branclileis silver.v .cra.v. 

 Flowers (May) niainl,v on Krowlli of llu' iin'vicois 

 snnson, mostly in pairs, willi slcii.li'r prdirds. 

 witlinut bractlets, tbose of llie si :irii iiiair aboni 

 '-J ill. Ions and tbnsc of thr pistillair sliortor ; 

 cal,\'x lobrs 1 1'iani-'iilnr. I'riiil ripenini; in early 

 auliMiin and ol'tiii persislins "ntil sprin.L;. ' 1 in. 

 ill diamc'lcr. red, depressed Rlobose with pedicels 

 scarcely i, in. Inn-: nutlet riblied. 



