Ilex montana Torr. & A.Gray

Ilex montana Torrey and A.
Gray ex A. Gray
A systematic study of the I lex decidua
complex and the X- ambigua complex.
Gregory A. Krakow, 1989
University of Georgia Athens, GA, USA
Ilex montana, Ti and G. var. molliS (A. Gray). Ilex mollisi
A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2. Leaves as in the type, but pubescent be-
jneath. Burgoon’s Gap, Penn. (Porter). Pocono Plateau*J?enn.,
¡collected by myself on the Torrey Club Field Excufsibn, June
7-10,1889. •
L This plant was first referred to Ilex dubia (Don.), B. S.'P.
jPrel. Cat. N. Y., but on comparison with typical specimens òf
I this species from the Àlleghanies of North Carolina, Georgia and5
I Alabama, it appears hardly possible that this, disposition'of ifeis
[correct. /. dubia has broadly ovate, oval or even obovate leaves,
I which are rarely acuminate and commonly obtuse, and are much
I more densely and softly pubescent beneath.
ilex mollis -was founded on the Pennsylvania plant, and thèf
[southern species subsequently referred to it. I am maintaining
I dubia as the specific name of the latter on the authority of Div
Gray, who probably saw a type of it. - But from Don’s descrip-
| tion of Prinos dubius, (Gard. Diet. ii. 20), this would not be
certain, and he says it occurs frotfj Neiy„Jersey to Carolinac> while''
I the plant"which-1 know as dubia is,-not reported north of North1
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Jan* 1961;
Ilex montana T. & G
G. EDWIN. U. S. Nat. Arboretum Herb,
PLANTS OF THE POCONO PLATEAU, PENN.
Collected during the Torrey Club Fi^ld Excu^ion, J«ne q7io, 1
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