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CUPILIFERKEA. 
are On the hills about Genoa, it 1s very common in 
a scrubby form, but I remember no large Ilexes 
there, except single trees, doubtless planted near | 
some of the convents. In the ‘‘Cascine,” near 
Pisa, mixed with the Stone Pine and the Pinaster, 
it forms extensive woods on a light sandy soil. 
The limestone mountains behind Spoleto are 
entirely clothed with the Ilex; so are those 
near Terni, around the famous Falls of the Velino, 
and those bounding the valley of the Nar from 
Terni to Narni. There are many large trees of a 
on the banks of the Nar near the Bridge of 
Augustus. The superb Ilexes in the grounds of the 
Villa Borghese and Villa Pamfili at Rome are 
celebrated ; but the finest trees of the kind that I 
remember ever to have seen are on the road 
between Castel Gandolfo and the Capuchin 
convent above the town of Albano. They are of 
vast size. 
Virgil applies the epithet corusca—‘ sparkling,” 
—to the Ilex :— 
“Quantus Eryx, aut quantus Athos, aut ipse, coruscis. 
Cum fremit ilicibus, quantus, gaudetque nivali. 
Vertice se attollens pater Appenines ad auras.” 
This may at first appear an unsuitable epithet 
for a rather dusky-coloured tree ; but I have often 
been struck with its propriety when I have ob- 
served the evergreen Oaks here on a blowing day. 
The leaves tossed by the wind, and_ rapidly 
