. 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. 628 The Hollies. Fig. 580. —Holly, Washington, deep green and shining above, paler beneath. The flower clusters are short-stalked on the staminate plant, but quite sessile on the pistillate, the smooth pedicels 3 to 6 mm. long; the 4 cah^x-lobes are triangular-ovate and blunt; corolla white, mm. across, its lobes oval or obovate and blunt. The fruit is a dark red globose drupe, 5 to 6 mm. in diameter on a short s
. 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. 628 The Hollies. Fig. 580. —Holly, Washington, deep green and shining above, paler beneath. The flower clusters are short-stalked on the staminate plant, but quite sessile on the pistillate, the smooth pedicels 3 to 6 mm. long; the 4 cah^x-lobes are triangular-ovate and blunt; corolla white, mm. across, its lobes oval or obovate and blunt. The fruit is a dark red globose drupe, 5 to 6 mm. in diameter on a short stalk; the nutlets are but shghtly ribbed. The wood is hard, close-grained, nearly white; its specific gravity is about The branches with their brilliant fruit are used in winter decoration like those. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Shafer, John Adolph. New York : H. Holt and Co.
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