. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 622 The Hollies sharply toothed on the margin, usually smooth, but sometimes slightly hairy above, more or less densely so and prominently netted beneath; the leaf-stalk is 5 to 10 mm. long. The flowers, which open in June or July, are mostly dioecious, their ca- l)^-lobes ovate or triangular-ovate, fringed and rather sharp-pointed; corolla whitish, 6 to 7 nun. across, the petals blimt. The fruit is in clusters, so arrang
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 622 The Hollies sharply toothed on the margin, usually smooth, but sometimes slightly hairy above, more or less densely so and prominently netted beneath; the leaf-stalk is 5 to 10 mm. long. The flowers, which open in June or July, are mostly dioecious, their ca- l)^-lobes ovate or triangular-ovate, fringed and rather sharp-pointed; corolla whitish, 6 to 7 nun. across, the petals blimt. The fruit is in clusters, so arranged as to ap- pear verticillate; it is globose, 6 to 8 mm. in diameter, bright red, or rarely yellowish; the nutlets are smooth. The bark and sometimes the leaves are occasionally used in medicine as a tonic and alterative. The Black alder, on ac- coimt of its brilUant fruit, is destined to become very useful in the ornamentation of large grounds where a variety of shrubbery is Fig. 570. — Black Alder. 2. WINTERBERRY—Hex lavigata (Pursh) A. Gray Prinos laruigata Pursh This shrub of swampy grounds and wet woods from Maine to Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Kentucky sometimes becomes a tree 6 meters tall. It is also called the Smooth winterberry and Hoopwood. The twigs are smooth and usually dark gray. The leaves are deciduous, rather thin, elliptic, oval or lanceolate, 4 to 8 cm. long, sharply or often taper-pointed, shallowly toothed and tapering to the short slender petiole, smooth on either surface or rarely sUghtly hairy on the venation beneath. The flowers open in May or June. The staminate flowers are clustered on stalks i to 2 cm. long. The pistillate flowers are sohtary on short stalks, their sepals triangu- lar or ovate-triangular, often finely fringed on the margin and sharp-pointed; corolla white or nearly so, 6 to 7 mm. across, the petals blunt. The fruit is orange-colored or red, subglobose, 8 to 10 mm. in diameter; its nutlets are smooth. Like the foregoing
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