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Ilex decidua Walter. 7 Winterberry. 



Range. — From southeastern Virginia (ranging from the coast region to near 

 the eastern base of the Appalachian Mountains) to western Florida; westward 

 in the Gulf States to eastern Texas (Colorado River), extending northward in 

 eastern Oklahoma, Arkansas, southern Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. 



NAMES IN USE 



Holly (Tex., Ark., Mo.). Privet (lit.). 



Bearberry (Miss.). Winterberry (Va.). 



Possom Haw (Fla.). Meadow Holly (lit.). 



Deciduous Holly (lit.). Turkey Berry (Ind.). 

 Swamp Holly (lit.). 



Ilex decidua curtissii Fernald. Winterberry. 



Range. — Western Florida. Further study of this exceptionally small-leaved 

 form may prove it to be specifically distinct. 



NAME IN USE 



Winterberry 



Ilex montana Torrey and Gray. 8 Mountain Holly. 



Range. — From New York (Catskill Mountains and Cattaraugus County) 

 southward in the mountains (and in Pennsylvania as far east as Northampton 

 County) to northern Alabama, northeastern Mississippi, Louisiana (central). 

 Arborescent chiefly in the mountains of western North Carolina, eastern Ten- 

 nessee (Great Smoky Mountains), and South Carolina. 



NAMES IN USE 



Large-leafed Holly (lit.). Mountain Privet (lit.). 



Mountain Holly (lit.). 



Family CELASTRACE^E 



EVONYMUS Linnaeus 



Evonymus atropurpureus Jacquin. Wahoo. 



Range. — From western New York through Michigan to southern Minnesota, 

 southeastern South Dakota, central Iowa, Nebraska, central Kansas, Oklahoma, 

 southern Arkansas, eastern Texas; in Montana (upper Missouri River); south 

 to eastern Tennessee and northeastern Alabama. 



i J. K. Small (Flor. S. E. U. S., 732, 1903) and Britton and Shafer (North Am. Trees, 621, 622, 1908) admit 

 as small trees Ilex verlicillata (Linnasus) A. Gray and Ilex laevigata (Pursh) A. Gray. I have not yet seen an 

 arborescent form of these species, which are usually shrubs. 



* Ilex ambigua (Michaux) Chapman, Ilex Beadlei Ashe, by some authors treated as distinct species, are 

 here considered extreme forms of Ilex montana Torrey and Gray, with which they appear to be connected 

 by intermediate forms. The Downy-leafed Holly (Ilex montkola var. mollis (A. Gray) Britton=i7e:c 

 mollis A. Gray), occurring from Massachusetts (Tatonic Mountains) to North Carolina, appears to be a 

 fairly distinct shrubby variety. 



Ilex montana Torrey and Gray was taken up by Britton and Shafer (op. cit., 624, 1908) for the Mountain 

 Holly, because it is an older name than Ilex monticola A. Gray. The former name was first published in 

 1848 in the first edition of Asa Gray's Manual of Botany (p. 276), where Torrey and Gray are given as the 

 authors. Doctor Gray seems to have changed his first name, Ilex montana, for this tree to Ilex monticola, 

 because of the existence of Prinos montanus Swartz (1783), which was applied to another holly, later, in 

 1861, designated as Ilex montana Swartz. But as the latter name was, when it was made, preoccupied by 

 the earlier Ilex montana Torrey and Gray, this earlier name has precedence. 



