Identifier: handbookoftreeso00houg Title: Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive Year: 1907 (1900s) Authors: Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924 Subjects: Trees -- North America Publisher: Lowville, N. Y., The author

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Text Appearing Before Image: YAUPON. Ilex vomitoria Ait.

Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 370. Branchlets with mature fruit : scattered fruits and nutlets.371. Trunk of small tree in eastern North Carolina. Handbook ok Treks of tjik ^^)ktiikkn States and Canada. 317 riie Yau[)(jii is a small tree occasionallyiiUixining the luij,lit of 20 or 30 ft., with densetop of many branches and usually more or lessinclined trunk from G to 10 or 12 in. in diameter. It is often shrubby, sending up severaltrunks from a common base. It is confinedto the immediate vicinity of the coast, seemingto rccjuire the intluence of the sea breezes inorder to maintain its existence, excepting inthe lower Mississippi valley where it venturesfarther inland. It is a tree of rare beauty inautumn and winter, when its brilliant redberries and handsome dark shining green leaveson livid branchlets are sought for Christmasdecorations. The leaves of the species possessstrong emetic properties, as implied in boththe specific name and one of the vernacular?iames — Enwtic HoUi/, — which was a fadknown to

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