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ILICINEj^. I. Mygixda. II. Lepionurus. III. Ilex. 



169. — P. Browne, jam. t. 17. f. 1. — Jacq. icon. rai\ t. 311. many-flowered. Flowers small, usually white, hermaphrodite, 

 Flowers small, reddish. Drupe about the size of a red currant, rarely dioecious or polygamous from abortion. 



■f Leaves sphiy-toothed. 

 Aquifolium (Lin. spec. 181.) leaves ovate or oblong acute, 



contauimg one nut. 



Rhacoma Myginda. Clt. 1798, Shrub 3 feet. 



9 M. LATiFOLiA (Swartz, fl. ind. occ. 1. p. 342.) leaves ellip- 



1 



tical, crenate, smooth, on short footstalks, coriaceous; peduncles shining, waved, spiny-toothed at the apex; peduncles axillary, 



Native short, many flowered ; flowers subumbellate. Tj . H. Native of 

 of the Caribbee islands. Flowers small, white. Drupe ovate, Europe, in shady places. It is to be found in many parts of 



trifid, few flowered ; stigmas 2-4, almost sessile. T2 - ^' 



about the size of pepper, droophig. 



Britain in woods and forests, but still it is a 



Broad-leaved Myginda. FL Ap. May. Clt. 1795. Sh. 3 ft. native. Smith, eng. bot. t. 496. Fl. dan. 508. 



truly 



M 



doubtful 



46. 



fig. 



10 M. INTEGRIFOLTA (Lam. diet. 4. p. 396.) leaves elliptical, Black, icon. t. 205. The holly rises even to 30 feet high, and 

 blunt, entire, smooth, coriaceous, on short stalks ; peduncles sometimes more. The flowers.dirty white, hermaphrodite, dice- 

 dicliotomous, few-flowered ; flowers dioecious ; stigmas 4, ses- cious, or polygamous. Berries roundish, red, crowned by the 

 sile. fj . S. Native of Martinique and St. Domingo. It is calyx, each containing 3 or 4 seeds. The holly is called also 



It is known by the name of 



Hoi 



probably a species of Vlex^ according to Kunth, but with the 



true habit o^ Rhacbyna. M. integrifolia Guadalupensis, Spreng. Hulver in Norfolk. In German it has a great variety of appel- 



syst. 1. p. 496. Flowers white? 



Enlire-leaved Myginda. Clt. 1826. Shrub 3 feet. 



11? M. Brasilik^nsis (Spreng. syst. 1. p. 496.) leaves ob- genohz, Myrtendorn^ Christdorn^ Mausedorn, Znneseldorn, 

 long, tapering to both ends, coriaceous, quite entire, shining, Kleesebusch, SlecJiapsel, Stechwinde, WalddisteL In Danish 



lations ; Stechpalme^ Stecheiche, StecJihaum, Stechlaub, H 



Hidsenhaum, Hulsenstrauch, Hulst, Hulch, Hoist, Hiibze, H 



genoh 



reticulated ; panicles axillary, shorter than the leaves. 

 Native of Brazil. Flowers whitish ? 



T2.S. 



Brazilian Myginda. Shrub 3 feet. 



12? M. GoNGONiiA (D. C. prod. 2. p. 13.) leaves oblong, Alloro spinoso. 



Stikpahne, Ma ^ _, 



7}ek, Christorn. In French, Le How 

 VAgron grand Pardon^ and Bois Franc, 



le 



rounded at the base, with a short acumen at the apex, margi- 

 nate, remotely serrated ; racemes axillary, sparingly branched ; 



c lie Id, 



ifolio, Acnfolio, Aquifolio, 



The hollv mak 



2/; 



In Swedish Jet- 



-M 



grand Housson^ 

 :alian, AgrifoUo, 

 In Portuguese, 

 lussian, JVaefos- 

 an impenetrable 



flowers sessile; branches terete. ^. S. Native of Brazil, in fence, and bears cropping well, nor is its verdure, or the beauty 

 the provinces of St. Paul and Minas Geraes, where it is called of its scarlet berries, ever observed to suffer from the severest 

 ^ ' '' ^ ^ ' ' " ' ' ' """ * of our winters. It would be preferable to the hawthorn for 



" ' ' ~ A holly 



Gongonha. Cassine Gongonha, Mart, in Isis. 1824. p. 589. An 

 infusion or decoction of the roots is a powerful diuretic ; the 

 leaves and branches possess the same quality, but in a less degree. 



Gongonha Myginda. Shrub 6 feet. 



Cidt. A mixture of loam and peat will answer the species of 

 Myginda, and ripened cuttings will root in sand, under a hand- 

 j^Iass ; those of the stove species in heat. 



hedges were it not for the slowness of its growth, 

 hedge sliould always be cropped in May. The wood 



is the 

 It is 



whitest of all hard woods, and useful for various purposes 

 used in fineering, and is sometimes stained black to imitate 

 ebony. It is much used with box, yew, white-thorn, &c. in the 

 small trinkets, and other works carried on in and about Tun- 

 bridge, commonly called Tunbridge-ware. The bark also affords 

 ^.. _^, ..^,.., ,, __^, __ ^^^^^ the substance called birdlime, which is prepared by boiling it 



in allusion to the pendulous bracteate spikes of ^^^^ ^^^ S^'^^^ P^^^ ^^ capable of being separated from the white, 



then laying it in a cool cellar for a few days, afterwards pound- 



II. LEPIONU'RUS (from XeTrig, Icpis^ a scale, and ovpa, 

 oura, a tail : ' " " 



flowers). Blum, bijdr. 1148. 

 Lin. syst. 



Man 



, Tetrdndria. Flowers monoecious from ^^S ^^ ^^}^ it becomes a tough paste, washing it repeatedly till it 



abortion. Calyx inferior, small, coloured, entire. Corolla deeply S^^^ ^"^^^ ^^^^^ 5 ^^^^^ placing it in an earthen vessel to ferment 



4-parted, with spreading segments. Stamens 4, opposite the ^^ become fine, when it will be fit for use. 



segments of the corolla ; filaments very short, inserted in tlie There are numerous varieties of this tree, which are highly 



base of the corolla. Ovary girded by a short fleshy margin. ornamental in clumps, borders, and other parts of pleasure 



Stigmas 4, acute, sessile. Drupe baccate, fleshy, containing a g^^ounds, aflTording much variety when judiciously intermixed. 



1 -seeded nut. Embryo albuminous, inverted. — A shrub, with The most remarkable of these are as follow : the smooth green- 



alternate, oblong, entire, smooth leaves, and axillary, pendulous l^^^^d, the common green-leaved, the narrow-serrated green- 



spikes of flowers, before expansion covered with imbricate brae- l<^(^^'cd, the green-leaved yellow-berried, the box-leaved green, and 



genus 



tlie hedge-hog green, the pricklij sUcer-striped-leaved hedge-hog, 

 the gold-striped-leaved hedge-hog, the blotched-leaved hedge- 

 hog, yellow and nhite, the smooth rvhite-striped-leaved, the smooth 

 For culture and propagation, see stove species of last y^^^on'-rvhite-striped-leaved, the smooth blotched-leaved, the 



teas, each bractea covering 3 flowers. 



1 L. Java'nicus. h • S. Native of Java. 



Java Lepionurus. 

 Cult. 



Shrub 6 feet. 



smooth narrow-striped-leaved, the blotched-leaved yellow-berried, 



copper 



III. TLEX (this name is originally derived from ac, a point in 

 Celtic ; the leaves of several species are prickly). Lin. gen. no. 

 172. D. C. prod. 2, p. 13. Aquifolium, Tourn. inst. t. 371. 

 Gasrt. fruct. 2. t. 92. 



Lix. SYST. Tctrcindria, Tctragijnia. Calyx 4-5-toothed, 

 permanent. Corolla 4-5-cleft, sub-rotate. Stamens 4-5, alter- 

 nating with tlie segments of the corolla, and inserted in its tube. 



leaved, the mottled-edged-leaved, the painted lady, the various- 

 leaved, the thick-leaved holly, Sec. 



Var. ft, echinatum (Mill. diet. no. 2.) leaves full of spines on 

 the disk, as well as the edges. ^ . H. Said to be originally 

 from North America. It does not change by culture. 



1 he leaves in young plants are always spiny-toothed, but in 

 tlie adult ones they are usually entire. The plant, native of 

 Cochin-china, is said to bear black berries ; it is therefore pro- 



Ovary sessile, 4-celled ; stigmas 4. almost sessne. sometimes Cis- table that Ss mly turn out to be a dShci spede ' 

 tmct, sometimes connected m one. Berrv contn n ntr 4-/; l_ p^,* 7./.. 7 , ^ ^"^ t^^ue a uibunct species. 



tmct, sometimes connected in one. Berry containinfr 4-5 1- 

 seeded nuts. Seeds inverted; albumen fleshy. — Evergreen 

 shrubs or trees, with the leaves usually coriaceous. Peduncles 



Prickly-leaved or common Holly. 

 Tree 30 feet. 



May 



Britain 



2 I. REcu RVA (Link, enum. 1. p. 247.) leaves oblong, acu- 



