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with grayish and warty branches. Leaves 1 to 2 inches long, }/£ to 1 inch wide, on 

 petioles % to 1 inch long. Flowers mostly solitary, the sterile on pedicels near 1 

 inch long, tho fertile scarcely % as long. Berries large red. 

 ** Leaves coriaceous, evergreen, shining above ; fruit blade. 



3. P. GLABER, L. Infeberry. Evergreen Winterberry. 



Lives wedge-lauceolato or oblong, somewhat toothed towards the apex, smooth ; 



pedicils axillary, of the fertile l-flowered, the sterile 3 to 6-liowerod at the summit, 



l.v woods. July. Shrub 3 to 4 t'o.'t high, muoh branched. Leavts crowdsd, 



about \}/y inch Ion;, broadest above the middle. Flowers whito mostly 6-parted. 



BarnM globose, black and shining. 



3. NEMOPANTHE3, Raf. Mountain Holly. 



Gp. nema, a thread, pous, a foot, and aniJus, a flower; a flower with a filiform pe- 

 duncle. 



Flowers polygamo-dicecious. Calyx a minute ring, 

 Petals 5, oblong-linear, reflexed, distinct. Stamens 5. 

 Ovary hemispherical; stigmas 3 to 4, sessile. Fruit a 

 3 to 4-eelled globose berry, with 4 to 5 long nutlets. — A 

 shrub with alternate entire deciduous leaves, on short petioles, and 

 solitary Jlowers on long and slender axillary peduncles. 



1. N. Canadensis, PC Canadian Holly. 



Leaves oval, very entire, smooth, mucronate-pointed ; peduncles nearly solitary, 

 ▼try lous ; fruit somewhat 4-sided. 



Damp cold woods. May, Jua;?. Shrub 4 to 6 feet high, with smooth ash-gray 

 bark. Leaves about 2 inches long on petioles V^as long. Flowers sma.ll, greenish- 

 vhito. Ikrrks dry, red. 



Oder G3. EBENAGEJE.*— The Ebony Family. 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate entire leaves, and polygamous regular flowers which 

 have a calyx free from tfie ovary, the stamcnsZ to 4 times as many as the lobes of ike 

 eorolla, and the fruit a several-celled berry. Seeds anatropous, mostly single in each 

 cell, large and flat, with a smooth coriaceous integument ; embryo shorter than 

 the hard albumen. 



1. DIOSPYRUS, Linn, Persimmon. 



Gr. Dios,pyrus the fruit of Jove. 



Dioecious. Calyx 4 to 6-cleft. Corolla 4 to 6-lobed, 

 Stamens mostly 16 in the sterile flowers, and 8 in the fer- 

 tile, in the latter imperfect ; filaments shorter than the 

 anthers. Berry large ovoid or globular, surrounded at the 

 base by the permanent calyx, 4 to 8-celled, 4 to 8-seeded. — 

 A large genus of shrubs or trees, mostly tropical, with alternate entire 

 haves and axillary flowers, the fertile axillary and solitary , the 

 sterile smaller and often clustered, 



1. D. Virginian a, L. Common Persimmon. 



Z*m* ovate-oblong* nearly .etaooth^ntire ; jtfdwn«&a very^hort; calyx 4-pwted;> 



