TETRANDRIA— TETRAGYNIA. Ilex. 227 



On the sea coast, very rare. 



Found by Plukenet about Boston, Lincolnshire. Pluk. Almag. On 

 Hounslow heath, by Mr. Doody. Dill, in Ray's Synopsis. No 

 other botanist has met with this plant on Hounslow heath j and 

 the late Sir Joseph Banks, who often examined the coast near 

 Boston, was persuaded that Bupleurum tenuissimum had been 

 mistaken for the Buffonia. Yet Plukenet and Dillenius cer- 

 tainly knew the latter perfectly, and the original specimen in 1 

 the British Museum is right. 



Annual. June. 



Root slender, fibrous. Stem smooth, round, alternately branched, 

 a span high. Leaves awl-shaped, 3-ribbed, smooth, Combined 

 by their broad sheathing bases, which are minutely fringed. FL 

 small, white, solitary, erect, on terminal or axillary roughish 

 stalks. Leaves of the calyx each with 3 close ribs, and broad 

 membranous margins. 



Sauvages named this genus after his great countryman Baffon, 

 who had indeed very slender pretensions to a botanical honour j 

 a circumstance supposed to have been indicated by Linnaeus in 

 the specific name, tenuifolia. 



TETRANDRIA TETRAGYNIA. 

 80. ILEX. Holly. 



Linn. Gen. 67. Juss. 379. FL Br. 192. Lam. t. 89. 

 Aquifolium. Tourn. t.37\. Duham. Arb. v. 1. 59. 



Nat. Orel. Dumoscc. Linn. 43. lihamni. Juss. 95. See 

 Grammar 182. 



Cat. inferior, small, of 1 leaf, with 4 small teeth, permanent. 

 Cor. wheel-shaped, in 4 deep, elliptical, spreading, con- 

 cave, segments ; or of 4 petals, cohering by their broad 

 bases ; much larger than the calyx. Filam. awl-shaped, 

 shorter than the corolla, and alternate with its divisions. 

 Anth. small, two-lobed. Germ, roundish. Styles none. 

 Stigmas 4, obtuse, permanent. Berry globular, of 4 cells. 

 Seeds solitary in each cell, oblong, pointed, angular at the 

 inside, rounded externally. 



Sometimes the flowers are 5-cleft ; and the germen is often 

 wanting in some that are 4-cleft. 



Shrubs or trees, with generally alternate, sometimes ever- 



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