. 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. Fig. S7S. —Beadle's Holly. 6. BEADLE'S HOLLY —Hex Beadlei Ashe Inhabiting rocky woods of the moiintainous portions of North Carolina, Ten- nessee, and Alabama, and usually a shrub, this sometimes becomes a small tree. The twigs are round, quite smooth, and brownish or dark gray. The deciduous leaves are membra- nous, often crowded, elliptic, ovate or suborbicular, broadest either about or below the middle, 3 to 8 cm. long
. 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. Fig. S7S. —Beadle's Holly. 6. BEADLE'S HOLLY —Hex Beadlei Ashe Inhabiting rocky woods of the moiintainous portions of North Carolina, Ten- nessee, and Alabama, and usually a shrub, this sometimes becomes a small tree. The twigs are round, quite smooth, and brownish or dark gray. The deciduous leaves are membra- nous, often crowded, elliptic, ovate or suborbicular, broadest either about or below the middle, 3 to 8 cm. long, sharp or taper-pointed, rounded or tapering at the base, and sharply toothed on the margin; they are Ught green and finely hairy above, paler and densely hairy with prominent midrib beneath; the leaf- stalks are about i cm. long and hairy. The flowers are on short hairy pedicels in few-flowered clus- ters; the calyx is hairy, about 2 mm. broad, its lobes blunt; the corolla is 5 to 6 mm. across. The fruit is a bright red drupe, oblong-globose, 6 to 8 mm. long; the nutlets are strongly ribbed. This may be a hairy form of the preceding species. 7. MYRTLE LEAVED DAHOON Hex myrtifolia Walter This straggling shrub sometimes be- comes a tree with an ascending or curved trunk, and stiff, upright, slender branches. It occurs in cypress swamps and wet woods in the pinelands of North Carolina to Florida and Louisiana. Its maximum height is 9 meters, with a trunk diameter of 3 dm. The bark is thin and nearly white. The twigs are slender, gray to brown, and nearly smooth. The leaves are thick, leathery and persistent, narrowly oblong or Unear, or on vigorous shoots nearly oval, i to 4 cm. long, bristle-pointed, tapering to the base, entire and somewhat revolute on the. Fig. 576. — Myrtle Leaved 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
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