HOLLY 



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formula K 4 (7 4 A G (4). The corolla is so deeply divided that 

 we must regard its minute obovate segments as separate 

 petals. The stamens may be just adherent to the base 



c 



Fig. 108. Ilex Aquifolium, Holly. A, branch with inflorescences, all 

 the flowers of which are <? ; B, flower-bud; <7, floral diagram, p. 288 

 (E and P). 



of the corolla. While the Holly flower is structurally 

 hermaphrodite, it is physiologically dioecious in most 

 cases, the stamens of the $ flower, large as they are, 

 carrying no fertile pollen ; sometimes, however, they are 

 fertile and the flower is <. See p. 269. 



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