. 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. Cassena 627. Fig. 578. —Krug's Holly. 9. KRUG'S HOLLY—Hex Kriigiana Loesener This West Indian evergreen tree has recently been discovered in southern peninsular Florida by Dr. J. K. Small and Mr. Percy Wilson, growing in rich hammocks south of Miami, attaining a height of about 15 meters, with a trunk diameter of 3 dm. In the Bahamas it is called Whitewood and it grows also in Haiti. The twigs are round, gray, becoming wh
. 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. Cassena 627. Fig. 578. —Krug's Holly. 9. KRUG'S HOLLY—Hex Kriigiana Loesener This West Indian evergreen tree has recently been discovered in southern peninsular Florida by Dr. J. K. Small and Mr. Percy Wilson, growing in rich hammocks south of Miami, attaining a height of about 15 meters, with a trunk diameter of 3 dm. In the Bahamas it is called Whitewood and it grows also in Haiti. The twigs are round, gray, becoming white. The bark is thin, close, quite smooth and nearly white. The leaves are eUiptic, elhptic-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 5 to 10 cm. long, taper-pointed, rounded or narrowed at the base, entire and revolute on the margin, yellowish green, smooth and shining with impressed midrib above, dull and smooth with prominent midrib beneath; the leaf-stalk is to 2 cm. long, slender and grooved. The ilowers are in axillary clusters; peduncles about i cm. long, the pedicels very short. The calyx is about 2 mm. broad, with triangular, sharp-pointed lobes; corolla whitish, spreading, mm. across, its lobes ovate and spreading; ovary ellipsoid; stigma discoid, slightly 4-lobed. The fruit is a globose, brownish purple drupe, its stalk 5 to 10 mm. long; nutlets usually 4, dark brown, rough, scarcely ridged. 10. CASSENA — Hex vomitoria Aiton Ilex Cassine Walter, not Linnaeus Usually an evergreen shrub, this sometimes becomes a tree up to 8 meters tall, with a trunk diameter of 2 dm., often forming dense thickets along margins of swamps and streams from Virginia and Arkansas to Florida and Texas, mostly near the coast. It has become naturalized in Bermuda. The ascending branches are slender. The bark is to 3 mm. thick, broken into small scales of a hght reddish brown color. The stiff, widely spreading twigs are finely hairy, but become- smooth, and pale gray. The leaves persist fo
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