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pieces usually fifteen or sixteen inches long, and from one to 
six inches thick. 
From the bark of the European species bird-lime is made; 
and the berries of our species, as well as of some others, have 
emetic properties. 
The American holly has not been found farther north than 
Massachusetts. By Michaux it had not been observed north 
of Long Island. It is found in all the Southern States, and 
westward as far as ‘Tennessee. 
Seven or eight other species are also found growing in the 
southern part of the United States. 
XVI. 2. WILD HOLLY. NEMOPANTHUS.* Rafinesque. 
A genus of a single species, with sterile, fertile, and perfect 
flowers on the same or on distinct plants; a very minute, four 
(or five) toothed calyx; a corolla of four (or five) distimct, ob- 
long-linear, fugacious petals; stamens four or five, longer than 
the corolla and alternating with its petals; ovary hemispherical, 
with four cells; style none, stigma four-lobed; fruit a round, 
four-seeded berry. 
Tur Witp Hotty. Movuntarn Hotty. N. Canadensis. Michaux. 
A beautiful, slender shrub, rising to the height of six or eight 
feet, and in swamps sometimes to ten or twelve. ‘T’he recent 
shoots are purple or olive, with round, gray dots, which, after 
the second year, are scarcely to be perceived. ‘The larger 
branches are greenish gray, growing darker and purplish, and 
finally, on the older stems, covered with various, white, gray 
and brown, membranous lichens. The leaves vary in shape, 
from a short, broad oval, to oblong, and inversely lance-shaped, 
tapering at the base, acute at the end, or rounded with an ab- 
rupt point, very smooth and entire, or with a few distant serra- 
* Rafinesque, in Silliman’s Journal, proposes the name Nemopanthus, which, he 
says, means “flower with a filiform peduncle,” for this new genus. His name 
should be retained, as he wrote it, if at all, and his generic description, which was 
communicated in January, 1818, has priority to Prof. Dewey’s, which was only sug- 
gested, according to Prof. Eaton, in that year.—Laton’s Manual, p. 403, note. 
