Ilex cassine (Dahoon holly)

4/11/2015 · Big Cypress Bend, Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, Florida · ≈ 15 × 10″ (37 × 25 cm)

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin)
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta	Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
Division	Magnoliophyta	Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms
Class	Magnoliopsida	Dicotyledons—plants with two initial seed leaves
Subclass	Asteridae	A large class that encompasses asters
Order	Aquifoliales	Hollies and some fairly obscure genera
Family	Aquifoliaceae	Holly family
Genus	Ilex	Latin for “holly oak” (rather than holly!)
Species	cassine	Probably from cassine, a word from the now extinct language of the Timucua Indians of Florida. They may have borrowed the term from the Creeks, who called this plant ussie, ”leaf tea.“ Cassine (c-assi-ne) would seem to be this word with a guttural prefix and a suffix ne of unknown meaning. (From W.R. Gerard)