Handbook of Tee.es of the Noetheen States and Canada. .'JIS 



The Cassena is a beautiful small tree of the 

 coast regions of the southern Atlantic and Gulf 

 States, occasionally attaining the height of 20 

 or 30 ft. with broail rounded top and trunk 

 sometimes 12 or 18 in. in diameter, or is often 

 no more than a large shrub. It grows mainlj' 

 in the hvunid soil of swamps and about the 

 borders of pine barren ponds in company with 

 the Cypress. Ogechee Lime, Gums, Sweet Bay, 

 Water and Laurel Oaks, Water Hickorj', 

 Planer-tree, etc. Rare in tlic northern part of 

 its range it becomes common soutbward, reach 

 ing its largest size and abundance in southern 

 Alabama, Georgia and Florida. In these re- 

 gions it is often known as Henderson-wood. 



Its wood is light, a cu. ft. when absolutely 

 dry weighing 29.!).') llis.. tough, close-grained, 

 easily worked and of a clear creamy v.'hite 

 color. - 



hrarfs pci'sistcnt. (il)laac('olato or o',iOvai('. 

 l'i;-n in. lon^^ cunoato at base, obtuse or acute or 

 cmar^inato (Hi>motimcs rouuded or retuso) at apoy 

 witli rcvolute and entire margins or very re- 

 motely and sharply appressed serrate near apc-^. 

 thick, sliining dark green above, paler and pubes- 

 cent on midribs beneath; petioles short, stout and 

 usually pubescent. Floiccr-s white, scarcely 14 i"- 

 broad, in hairy pedunculate clusters from the axils 

 mainly of the leaves of the year, the staminato 

 o-9-flt)wered and the pistillate usually M-flowered, 

 common peduncles nearly 1 in. long; caly-Y lobes 

 acute, ciliate. Fntit red drupes ripening in au- 

 tumn and persisting luitil sjiring. sub.'iiobose, 14 

 in. in diameter ; nutlets prominently ribbed. 



1. Syn. Ilex Dahoon Walt. 



2. A. W., XII, 276. 



