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HOLLY 



Fig. 109. Holly. B, a 3 flower; C, a ? flower; D, longitudinal section 

 of ovary, showing the pendent ovules; E, fruit; E, the same in transverse 

 section; G, seed; H, the same in longitudinal section, p. 288 (E and P). 



Flowers greenish; sepals, petals and 

 stamens 5 each, the latter opposite the 

 petals, and with minute glands between 

 their bases, flowers in complex branched 

 cymes. Tendril climbers. 



# Petals united above, and pushed off 

 as a cap by the stamens. 



