3. I. Dahòon, Walt. (DAHOON HOLLY.) _Leaves oblanceolate or oblong, entire, or sharply serrate_ toward the apex, with revolute margins (2--3´ long), the _midrib and peduncles pubescent; calyx-teeth acute_.--Swamps, coast of Va. and southward. May, June. Var. myrtifòlia, Chapm. Leaves smaller (1´ long or less) and narrower. (I. myrtifolia, _Walt._)--Same habitat. May. § 2. PRINOÌDES. _Parts of the (polygamous or diœcious) flowers in fours or fives (rarely in sixes); drupe red or purple, the nutlets striate-many-ribbed on the back; leaves deciduous; shrubs._ 4. I. decídua, Walt. _Leaves wedge-oblong or lance-obovate, obtusely serrate, downy on the midrib_ beneath, shining 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. montícola, 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. móllis, 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 clusters, 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. PRÌNOS. _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 clusters, or the fertile solitary; fruit bright red._ 7. I. verticillàta, 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. lævigàta, Gray. (SMOOTH WINTERBERRY.) Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, pointed at both ends, appressed-serrulate, shining 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 shining, often black-dotted beneath; fruit black._ 9. I. glàbra, Gray. (INKBERRY.) Leaves wedge-lanceolate or oblong, sparingly toothed toward the apex, smooth; peduncles (½´ long) of the sterile flowers 3--6-flowered, of the fertile 1-flowered; calyx-teeth rather blunt.--Sandy grounds, Cape Ann, Mass., to Va., and southward near the coast. June.--Shrub 2--3° high. 2. NEMOPÁNTHES, Raf. MOUNTAIN HOLLY.