204 



HOLLY 



Venation pinnate-reticulate and looped. The second- 

 aries leave the midrib in pinnate order, at first nearly 

 straight, then curving outwards and tending to loop back- 

 wards, losing themselves in reticulations beneath the 



Fig. 61. Holly, Ilex dquifolium, p. 203 (D). 



margin, the branches of which unite into a strong marginal 

 vein: a few run to the margin. Tertiaries leaving the 

 inner sides of secondaries at acute angles, the outer at 

 various open angles, and forming prominent large meshes. 



