[1] This was written before Professor Venable’s recent investigations, hereafter referred to.

[2] Prof. W. Trelease, of the Shaw School of Botany, St. Louis, Mo., has written an excellent synopsis of the genus Ilex in the United States embracing 14 species.

[3] This was written before Professor Venable’s recent investigations, hereafter referred to.

[4] Vol. II, p. 39, “Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society.”

[5] Only when drunk in great quantity.—H.

[6] This is the Prinus glaber of Linnæus sp. pl. p. 471 and Cassena vera Floridanorum, Catesby’s Carolinas, 2 t. 57.