080 BIOECIA TETRANDRIA. 
A very beautiful tree, growing in rich soils 30—40 feet in height, and 1 
—2 feet in diameter, with a compact, dense, generally oblong head. Leaves 
alternate, oval-lanceolate, dentate, the teeth spinous, glabrous, coriaceous, pe- 
rennial, lucid on the upper surface, on short petioles. Flowers clustered at 
the base of the small branches, on short peduncles. Calyx small, with 4 
minute teeth. Corolla small, rotate, 4-parted, white. Fruit , as in all of 
our species, a bright scarlet berry, bearing four seeds. 
This is one of our most ornamental trees; its bright deep green, perennial 
leaves, and the brilliant colour of its berries, which remain on their pedicels 
generally until February, render it in the depths of our winter very conspi- 
cuous in our forest scenery. The wood is fine-grained, compact, hard, and 
is used by Cabinet-Makers and Turners in many of their fabrications. 
Grows in rich dry soils. 
Flowers April — May. 
2. Dahoon. Walt. 
I. foliis oblongo-lan- 
ceoiatis, junioribus spi- 
noso-serratis, veteribus 
sub-integris; fasciculis 
ft or um pedunculatis. 
Leaves oblong-lan- 
ceolate, when young 
armed with spiny ser- 
ratures, when old fre- 
quently entire; clusters 
of flowers pedunculate. 
Walt. p. 241. Mich. 2. p. 228. Pursh, 1. p. 117. Nutt. 1. p. 109. 
J. Cassine, Sp. pi. 1. p. 709. 
A very handsome shrub, 4 to 10 or 12 feet high, with long virgate bran- 
ches. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, coriaceous, glabrous, acute; when young 
the serratures are sometimes as acute as those of the I. Opaca; when old the 
leaves are frequently entire. Flowers axillary in paniculate clusters, 6- — 10 
in each cluster. Corolla white, small. Berry red, persistent. 
This plant, wherever in this country it has a popular name, is distinguish- 
ed as the Dahoon Holly. 
Grows in swamps. 
Flowers May. 
3. LlGCSTlRNA. 
I. foliis lineari-lan- 
ceolatis, basi cuneatis, 
plerumque integerri- 
rais; floribus fertilibus 
solitariis. E. 
Leaves linear-lance- 
olate, cuneate at base, 
generally entire; fertile 
florets solitary. 
