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CELASTRINE^. 



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species. The Celastrus is a climbing shrub, 

 remarkable for its clusters of flowers, but which 

 has nothing else to recommend it. The third 

 section, Aquifoliacese, is made a separate order, 

 under the name of Ilicinese, or Aquifoliacese, by 

 many botanists ; some of whom place it in the 

 sub-class Corollseflorse, because the petals are 

 connected at the base. The most common plants 

 that it contains are included in the genera Ilex 

 and Prinos. In Ilex aquifoUurrii the Holly, the 

 corolla {a in Jig. 135), is in four or five petals 



Fig. 135.— The Holly, 



connected at the base ; there are four stamens, 

 the cells of the anthers of which adhere to the 

 sides of the filament [h). The berry (c) is four- 



