10 fAJTILIJE WILD FLO WEES. 



are individually small, the dense clusters in which they are 

 found in the axils of the leaves, and their delicate creamy- 

 white colour, tend to make them more noticeable. The 

 corolla is all in one piece, but deeply cut into four lobes ; 

 and these, instead of forming a cup, as in the buttercup 

 and many other flowers, are thrown boldly back a feature 

 which may be very readily noted in our illustration. The 

 calyx has four small teeth, and the stamens, too, are four in 

 number. These are rather large, and with their conspicu- 

 ous yellow anthers form a noticeable feature in the cluster- 

 ing blossoms. The berries, as we all know, are ordinarily 

 bright scarlet, though they may sometimes be found bright 

 yellow instead ; and we remember once to have seen, at a 

 meeting of a botanical society, a spray of holly exhibited 

 with orange-coloured berries, the result of a scion of a 

 yellow-fruited variety grafted on a red-berried stock. 

 This is somewhat curious, for, although an artist mixes 

 red and yellow together, to make an orange tint, it by 

 no means follows that Nature mixes her colours in the 

 same way. Though it is, of course, equally open to 

 any one else to try the same experiment, and very possibly 

 many florists may have done so, we may mention that 

 the only example that ever came under our own notice 

 of this grafting together of the yellow and the red came 

 from Bury St. Edmunds. 



The leaves of the holly are evergreen, very thick 

 in texture, and shining. The upper leaves are often 

 entire, and wanting in that formidable armament oi' 

 prickles that is so marked a feature in the lower and older 

 leaves. 



Though ordinarily a deep rich green, we at times find 

 plants in which the foliage is streaked, or blotched with 



