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THE HOLLY. 

 ILEX A QUI FOLIUM. PL IS. 



Fruftificalion. Flowers generally with four 

 chives and four pointals on each, (but 

 fometimcs the barren and fertile fe- 

 parate,) fucceedcd by a berry with 

 four cells and one feed in each. 



Specific character. Leaves oval, pointed, 

 thorny. 



THE holly grows native in woods to the 

 height of twenty or thirty feet ; but we 

 more ufually fee it in gardens in the ftate 

 of a fhrub. ft is an evergreen, and by its 

 fhining leaves and red berries forms a 

 principal decoration in the winter land- 

 fcape. Armed by^ nature in its own de- 

 fence with thorns projecting from the in- 

 dentations- of the leaves, it has been fe- 



letfed 



