. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. Ilex opaca. THE AMERICAN HOLLY. Synonymcs. Hex opaca, Houx de I'Amerique, Amcrikanischcr Stechpalmenbaum^ AKritoglio a io<([\Qi di querela, Agi-il'ulio arnericanu, American Holly, ' AiToN, Hortus KewensiE. De , Prodromus. MicHAUx, North American Sylva. Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum.
. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. Ilex opaca. THE AMERICAN HOLLY. Synonymcs. Hex opaca, Houx de I'Amerique, Amcrikanischcr Stechpalmenbaum^ AKritoglio a io<([\Qi di querela, Agi-il'ulio arnericanu, American Holly, ' AiToN, Hortus KewensiE. De , Prodromus. MicHAUx, North American Sylva. Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. ToRREY AND Gray, Flora of North America. France. Germany. Italy. Spain and Portugal. Britain and Derivation. Tho imme, opaca, is derived from the Latin, opaciis, iliick, liiishy, as if giving sliade. Engravings. Micliaux, xNortli American Sylva, pi. 81; Loudon, Arborttum Brilannicum, v.,°pl. m â and the figures below. Specific Characters Leaves ovate, flat, coriaceous, acute, tootlied in a scolloped manner, spiny, and -la- bro IS, but not glossy. Flowers scattered at the base of only those branches that are a year old Teeth of the calyx acute. Sexes )c Candolle, Frodromus. ^ ' Description. HE Ilex opaca is a beau- evergreen tree, some- times growing to the ^ ...,.^^â-^â.« licii^htofciglity left, with a trunk iour feet in diame'er; but its ordinary hei'^ht, in favourable situations, is not more than thirty or foi'ty feet, with a diameter of twelve or fitteep inches; and near its northernmost limits it IS seldom found to exceed ten feet in height. The bark of the trunks of old trees is smooth, and of a Avhitish-gray; but on the yovng slioots and branches U is green and siiining. he leaves are ovate, acute, spinous, glabrous, ana flat; and are ol a hght-green colour. Tiie flowers, which ap- pear in the months of May and June, are but not conspicuous, and are succeeded by hand- some, round, scarlet bo-rics, that remai
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