MOUNTAIN HOLLY (Rex montieola, Gray). Shrub to 40 feet. Low shrub with spreading stems, or narrowly pyramidal tree; trunk short. Bark and wood like preceding species. Leaves deciduous, thin, ovate, serrate, acuminate at apex, acute at base, length 4 to 5 inches, width to Q inches, light green above, pale below; petioles short. Flowers in
June, in short-stalked cymes, axillary, dioecious. Fruit scarlet berries, nearly inch in diameter, ripe in early autumn, and soon falling with the leaves. Dist.: Mountain slopes, following Alleghenies from New York to Alabama. A tree only in the Carolinas, on the Blue Ridge foothills.