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4. I. decidua, Walt. _Leaves wedge-oblong or lance-obovate, obtusely serrate, downy on the midrib_ beneath, s.h.i.+ning above, becoming thickish; peduncles of the sterile flowers longer than the petioles, of the fertile short; calyx-teeth smooth, acute.--Wet grounds, Va. to Mo., Kan., and southward. May.

5. I. monticola, Gray. _Leaves ovate or lance-oblong, ample_ (3--5'

long), taper-pointed, thin-membranaceous, _smooth, sharply serrate_; fertile flowers very short-peduncled; calyx ciliate.--Damp woods, Taconic and Catskill Mountains, and Cattarangus Co., N. Y., through Penn. (east to Northampton Co.), and southward along the Alleghanies.

May.

6. I. mollis, Gray. _Leaves soft downy beneath_, oval, ovate, or oblong, taper-pointed at both ends, especially at the apex, thin-membranaceous, sharply serrulate; sterile flowers very numerous in umbel-like cl.u.s.ters, the pedicels shorter than the petiole and (with the calyx) soft-downy, the fertile peduncles very short.--Burgoon's Gap, Alleghanies of Penn.

(_J. R. Lowrie, Porter_), and along the mountains in the Southern States.--Resembles the last.

-- 3. PRNOS. _Parts of the sterile flowers commonly in fours, fives, or sixes, those of the fertile flowers commonly in sixes (rarely in fives, sevens, or eights); nutlets smooth and even; shrubs._

[*] _Leaves deciduous; flowers in sessile cl.u.s.ters, or the fertile solitary; fruit bright red._

7. I. verticillata, Gray. (BLACK ALDER. WINTERBERRY.) _Leaves_ oval, obovate, or wedge-lanceolate, pointed, acute at base, serrate, _downy on the veins beneath; flowers all very short-peduncled_.--Low grounds; common. May, June.

8. I. laevigata, Gray. (SMOOTH WINTERBERRY.) Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, pointed at both ends, appressed-serrulate, s.h.i.+ning above, beneath mostly _glabrous; sterile flowers long-peduncled_.--Wet grounds, Maine to the mountains of Va. June.--Fruit larger than in the last, ripening earlier in the autumn.

[*][*] _Leaves coriaceous, evergreen and s.h.i.+ning, often black-dotted beneath; fruit black._

9. I. glabra, Gray. (INKBERRY.) Leaves wedge-lanceolate or oblong, sparingly toothed toward the apex, smooth; peduncles (' long) of the sterile flowers 3--6-flowered, of the fertile 1-flowered; calyx-teeth rather blunt.--Sandy grounds, Cape Ann, Ma.s.s., to Va., and southward near the coast. June.--Shrub 2--3 high.

2. NEMOPaNTHES, Raf. MOUNTAIN HOLLY.

Flowers polygamo-dicious. Calyx in the sterile flowers of 4--5 minute deciduous teeth, in the fertile ones obsolete. Petals 4--5, oblong-linear, spreading, distinct. Stamens 4--5; filaments slender.

Drupe with 4--5 bony nutlets, light red.--A much-branched shrub, with ash-gray bark, alternate and oblong deciduous leaves on slender petioles, entire or slightly toothed, smooth. Flowers on long slender axillary peduncles, solitary or sparingly cl.u.s.tered. (Name said by the author to mean ”flower with a filiform peduncle,” therefore probably composed of ??a, _a thread_, p???, _foot_, and ?????, _flower_.)

1. N. fascicularis, Raf. (N. Canadensis, _DC._)--Damp cold woods, from the mountains of Va. to Maine, Ind., Wisc., and northward. May.

ORDER 26. CELASTRaCEae. (STAFF-TREE FAMILY.)

_Shrubs with simple leaves, and small regular flowers, the sepals and the petals both imbricated in the bud, the 4 or 5 perigynous stamens as many as the petals and alternate with them, inserted on a disk which fills the bottom of the calyx and sometimes covers the ovary. Seeds arilled._--Ovules one or few (erect or pendulous) in each cell, anatropous; styles united into one. Fruit 2--5-celled, free from the calyx. Embryo large, in fleshy alb.u.men; cotyledons broad and thin.

Stipules minute and fugacious. Pedicels jointed.

[*] Leaves alternate. Flowers in terminal racemes.

1. Celastrus. A shrubby climber. Fruit globose, orange, 3-valved. Aril scarlet.

[*][*] Leaves opposite. Flowers in axillary cymes or solitary.

2. Euonymus. Erect shrubs. Leaves deciduous. Fruit 3--5-lobed.

3--5-valved. Aril red.

3. Pachystima. Dwarf evergreen shrub. Flowers very small. Fruit oblong, 2-valved. Aril white.

1. CELaSTRUS, L. STAFF-TREE. SHRUBBY BITTER-SWEET.