282 48. AQTJIFOLIACE3J. 



a ring or points. E. B. 517. St. 13. 13. Fl. white drooping, 

 oval-oblong, nearly closed. Style very long, exserted. L; 

 many. Mossy alpine woods. P. VII. E. S. I. 



11. MONE'SES Salisb. 



1. M. grandifldra (Gray). E. B. 146. Pyrola uniflora 

 L. L. few, roundish, serrate. Fl. solitary, terminal, large, 

 drooping, white, open, nearly an inch broad. Stam. shorter 

 than the pet. and closely adpressed to them. Stigmas very 

 large. Woods in the north and west of Scotland, rare. P. 

 VI. VII. S. 



Tribe V. Monotropece. 



12. MONOT'ROPA Linn. 



I- M. Hypop'itys (L.) ; fl. in a drooping cluster, 8 stam. in 

 terminal, 10 in lateral fl., fr. erect, bracts and fl. glabrous ex- 

 ternally. E. B. 69. Hypopitys Manotropa (Crantz). Inner 

 side of the pet., filaments, germen and style glabrous (If. glabra ' 

 Bernh., DC.) or hairy (M. multiflora Scop., DC.). Plant 68 

 in. high, succulent, simple, clothed with ovate scales, terminating 

 in a short cluster, dingy yellow, turning nearly black. Fl. 

 with large scale-like bracts. Fr. ovoid erect. Not parasitical. 

 Clusters sometimes erect. Woods. P. VII. VIII. Yellow 

 Bird's nest. E. S. I. 



Order XLVIII. AQUIFOLIACE^l. 



Sep. inferior, 4 9, imbricate. Cor. regular, 4 6-parted, 

 imbricate. Stam. inserted upon the base of the corolla and 

 alternate with its lobes. Disk 0. Ovary 2 6-celled ; ovules 

 solitary, pendulous, with a cup-shaped seed-stalk. Fr. fleshy, 

 not bursting ; seeds stony, 2 6. Stipules small, deciduous. 



1. ILEX. Cal. 4 5-fid, persistent. Cor. rotate, 4 5-fid. 

 Stam. 4 5. Stigmas 4 5, nearly sessile. Fr. fleshy, 

 containing 4 5 seeds. 



1. I'LEX Linn. Holly. 



1 . I. Aquifolium (L.) ; 1. ovate acute spinous wavy shining, 

 peduncles axillary short many-flowered, fl. somewhat umbellate. 

 E. B. 496. St. 7. 4. A small tree. L. evergreen, often 



