. 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. 768 Marlberry dustered near the ends of the twigs, leatheiy, obovate to oblong, 4 to 10 cm. long, blunt or notched at the apex, entire, revolute-margined, bright green, smooth and shining above, paler beneath; the leaf- stalk is short; the small flowers are polygamo-dioecious, sessile or nearly so, scattered along the twigs; the calyx is bell-shaped, i mm. high, the 5 or 6 sepals broadly ovate, blunt or sharp-pointed and
. 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. 768 Marlberry dustered near the ends of the twigs, leatheiy, obovate to oblong, 4 to 10 cm. long, blunt or notched at the apex, entire, revolute-margined, bright green, smooth and shining above, paler beneath; the leaf- stalk is short; the small flowers are polygamo-dioecious, sessile or nearly so, scattered along the twigs; the calyx is bell-shaped, i mm. high, the 5 or 6 sepals broadly ovate, blunt or sharp-pointed and spotted with purple; the corolla is wheel-shaped, whitish, 4 mm. across, 3 times longer than the ca- lyx, its 5 or 6 lobes imequal, oblong, usually blimt, glandular-ciliate and hke the calyx spotted and striped with pur- ple; stamens as many as there are co- rolla-lobes and joined to their base; the filaments are very short; anthers arrow- shaped, blunt, shorter than the co- rolla lobes and introrse; the ovary is i-celled; ovules several, immersed in the placenta, only x maturing; style elongated; stigma capitate. The fruits are in clusters surrounding the branchlets; they are subglobose, dryish drupes 4 mm. in diameter, bluish or black, short-stalked, tipped at the apex by the persistent style; seed solitary. The wood is hard, strong, rather close-grained, light yellowish Fig. 700. — Myrsine. II. MARLBERRY GENUS ICACOREA AUBLET Species Icacoiea paniculata (Nuttall) Sudworth Cyrilla paniculata Nuttall. Ardisia Pickeringia Torrey and Gray HIS small, slender tree, more often a shrub, of southern Florida, the Bahamas, and other West Indies, is also known as Cherry. It reaches a height of meters, with a trunk diameter of about dm. The trunk is short, its branches slender and ascending. The bark is about 3 mm. thick, light gray to white, scaly, inner layers dark brown. The twigs are stout, round, slightly hairy, reddish brown or gray. The leaves are de- ciduous, al
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