AQUIFOLIACEAE (HOLLY FAMILY) 



ANACARDIACEAE (Cashew Family) 



Trees or shrubs with alternate leaves, and small 

 regular floners in spikes or heads. A i-celted 

 ovary with 3 styles or stigmas. Fruit drupe-like. 



RHUS 



Leaves usually compound. Flowers greenish- 

 white or yellowish. Sepals and petals 5. Sta- 

 mens 5. 



Floerkea proser. 

 pina c o i d e s , 

 False mermaid. 



R. canadensis, Fragrant Sumac. A straggling 

 bush, I to 2 m. high; leaves with 3 leaflets wl;iich are rhombic-obovate, 

 or ovate, cut-toothed; flowers pale yellow, in small spikes or heads, ap- 

 pearing in spring before the leaves; fruit clothed with crimson hairs. 

 Dry rocky banks. 



AaxriFOLIACEAE (Holly Family) 



Trees or shrubs with simple leaves, small white or greenish 

 flowers, with parts 4 to 8. Fruit a drupe. 



ILEX 



Trees or shrubs with alternate leaves. Calyx 4 to 6 toothed. 

 Petals and stamens 4. to 6. The berry-like drupe containing 4 to 

 6 nutlets. 



L verticillata, Winterbeery. Shrubs with deciduous leaves, oval, 

 obovate or wedge-lanceolate, serrate, downy on the veins beneath ; 

 flowers very short-peduncled ; calyx lobes ciliate on the margins ; fruit 

 red. Low grounds. May, June. 



NEMOPANTHUS 



A branching shrub with gray bark. Alternate, deciduous, en- 

 tire or slightly toothed leaves. Flowers on long axillary peduncles, 

 solitary or somewhat clustered. Parts of the flower 4 or 5. 



N. mucronata. Mountain Holly. Erect, reaching 3 m. in height; 

 leaves elliptic-oblong, thin; drupe light-red. Damp woods. 



