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would form neat miniature trees. Propagated by suckers, or by cuttings of 
the young wood in sand under aglass, or by seeds. Common soil, kept moist. 
There is a close general resemblance among all the deciduous species, which 
leads us to doubt whether they are any thing more than varieties. 
§ 1. Prindides Dec. 
le 
Sect. Char, Flowers usually 4—5- sometimes 6-cleft. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 16.) 
Leaves deciduous. 
% 1. P.peEci'puus Dec. The deciduous Winter Berry. 
Identification. Dec. Prod., 2. p.16.; Don’s Mill., 2. p, 20. 
Synonymes. I‘lex prindides Ait. Hort. Kew. 2. p. 278.3; I‘lex decidua 
Wait. Fl. Carol. 241. 
Engraving. Our jig. 232. from a plant in the Hort. Soc. Garden. 
Spec. Char., $c. Leaves deciduous, elliptic-lanceolate, 
tapered to the petiole, shallowly serrated; the midrib 
villous beneath. Peduncles axillary; those of the male 
flowers several together; of the female ones, singly. 
Berries red. (Dec. Prod.) A deciduous shrub. Vir- 
ginia to Georgia, on rocky shady banks of rivers. Height 
83ft. to 5ft. Introduced in 1736. Flowers white; June 
and July. Berries large, crimson ; ripe in December. 
Plants of this species are in Loddiges’s nursery, under f 
the name of ‘lex prindides. Daas ppnnea tea aias 
% 2, P. amsr’cuus Micnx. The ambiguous Winter Berry. 
Identification. Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 2. p. 236.; Dec. Prod, 2. p. 17.3 
Don’s Mill., 2. p. 20. 
Synonyme. Cassine caroliniana Walt. Fl. Carol. p. 242. 
Engravings. Wats. Dend. Brit., t. 29.; and our jig. 233. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves deciduous, oval, acuminate at both 
ends ; both adult ones and young ones glabrous in every 
part. Peduncles of the male flowers crowded together in 
the lower parts of the branchlets; of the female ones, 
singly. (Dec. Prod.) A deciduous shrub, New Jersey 
to Carolina, in wet sandy woods. Height 4ft. to 5 ft. 
Introduced in 1812. Flowers white; June to August. 
Berries red ; ripe in November. 
The leaves are subimbricate, serrated, acute at the apex, and 
the berries small, round, smooth, and red. There is a hand- 
some plant of this species in the arboretum of Messrs. Lod- Ay 
diges, which, in1835, was 5 ft. high. It is of easy culture in any a 
free soil ; and is propagated by seeds, cuttings, or layers, i J 
233. P. ambiguus. 
§ ii. Ageria Dec. 
Sect. ene Flowers usually 6-cleft. Leaves deciduous. (Dec. Prod., 
MW. p. 17, 
2 3. P. verticitta‘tus L, The whorled Winter Berry. 
Identification. Lin. Spec., 471. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 17.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 20, 
Synonymes. BP. padifdlius Willd. Enum. p. 394. P. G ig Mi "FL $ 
P.confértus Monch; P. prunifolius Tedd. Cat. * PEE MACE ERB Et Aman. Bk ees 
