. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus i. HOLLY FAMILY. 489. 8. Ilex verticillata (L.) A. Gray. Vir- ginia Winterberry. Black Alder. Fever-bush. Fig. 2793. Prinos verticillatiis L. Sp. PI. 330. 1753- Prinos podifoHus Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 394. i&og. Ilex verticillata A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 264. 1856. A shrub, 6°-25° high. Twigs brown, glabrous or slightly pubescent; leaves oval, obovate
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus i. HOLLY FAMILY. 489. 8. Ilex verticillata (L.) A. Gray. Vir- ginia Winterberry. Black Alder. Fever-bush. Fig. 2793. Prinos verticillatiis L. Sp. PI. 330. 1753- Prinos podifoHus Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 394. i&og. Ilex verticillata A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 264. 1856. A shrub, 6°-25° high. Twigs brown, glabrous or slightly pubescent; leaves oval, obovate or oblong-lanceolate, 2-3' long, about i' wide, acute or acuminate at the apex, acute or obtusish at the base, rather thick and coriaceous, dark green and nearly glabrous above, pubescent, at least on the veins beneath, sharply serrate; staminate cymes clustered, 2-io-flowered, the fertile 1-3- flowered; pedicels 2-bracted; calyx-lobes obtuse, ciliate; drupes bright red (rarely yellow or white), clustered so as to appear verticillate, about 3" in diameter; nutlets smooth. In swamps, Connecticut to Florida, west to Wis- consin and Missouri, perhaps extending further north. The leaves turn black in autumn. Striped, white or false alder. June-July. 9. Ilex bronxensis Britton. Northern Winterberry. Fig. 2794. Ilex verticillata tenuifolia Torr. Fl. North. U. S. 338. 1824. Not /. tenuifolia Salisb. Ilex bronxensis Britton, Man. 604. 1901. /. verticillata cyclophylla Robinson, Rhodora 2: 105. 1900. Similar to the preceding species, but with grey slender twigs. Leaves various, obovate to orbicular, i'-3' long, glabrous, or more or less pubescent beneath; fruit often larger than that of /. verticillata, orange-red. In swamps and wet woods. Nova Scotia to On- tario, Michigan, Indiana and New Jersey. June- July. Ilex fastigiata Bicknell, of Nantucket, recently described, differs by fastigiate branching and nar- rower lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate Please note that these i
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