. 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. 624 The Hollies or taper-pointed, tapering or rounded at the base, short petioled, margined with very small sharp, stiff-tipped teeth above the middle, smooth or nearly so on both surfaces. The flowers are axillary, solitary or in clusters, on pedicels 2 to 5 mm. long, opening in early spring. The calyx is 2 to 3 mm. across, smooth, its lobes broadly triangular and pointed in the staminate flowers, blunt in the pistillate
. 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. 624 The Hollies or taper-pointed, tapering or rounded at the base, short petioled, margined with very small sharp, stiff-tipped teeth above the middle, smooth or nearly so on both surfaces. The flowers are axillary, solitary or in clusters, on pedicels 2 to 5 mm. long, opening in early spring. The calyx is 2 to 3 mm. across, smooth, its lobes broadly triangular and pointed in the staminate flowers, blunt in the pistillate, hairy-fringed; corolla white, 5 to 6 mm. across, its petals oval, blunt. The sta- mens are shorter than the petals. The fruit is a globose to oblong red drupe, 6 to 7 mm. in diameter; the nutlets, usually 4, are light brown and very promi- nently ribbed. 5. MOUNTAIN HOLLY —Hex montana Torrey and Gray Ilex monticola A. Gray A deciduous shrub or small tree attaining a maximum height of 12 meters and a trunk diameter of 3 dm., occurring mostly in mountain woods from New York to Georgia and Alabama. The trunk is short, its branches slender, spreading and ascending. The bark is about I mm. thick, close, light brown and warty. The twigs are roimd, smooth, reddish brown becoming dark gray. The leaves are very thin and nearly smooth, elliptic, eUiptic-lanceo- late or rarely suborbicular, 6 to 20 cm. long, taper-pointed, narrowed or rounded at the base, sharply toothed on the margin, dark green and smooth above, paler and smooth, except for a few hairs along the prominent venation, beneath. The flowers appear from May to August, in clusters on short, lateral stalks, the staminate on pedicels 12 mm. long, the pistillate solitary or few in a cluster, on short pedicels. The calyx is 3 to 4 mm. across; its lobes are broadly triangular, irregularly toothed, sharp-pointed and ciliate; coroUa white, 6 to 8 nmi. across, its lobes oval to obovate and blunt; stamens shorter than the coroUa-lo
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