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very striking and others inferior to the type. Thus the 

 varieties with white, yellow, or black berries, although interest- 

 ing, are less effective than the scarlet-berried variety ; and the 

 variety called ferox, or Hedgehog, in which the leaves are 

 studded nearly all over with sharp prickles, is more remarkable 

 than pretty, and the same may be said of ferox aurea and 

 ferox argentea, the Grold and Silver Hedgehog Hollies. In 

 return, some of the gold and silver varieties are eminently de- 

 serving of cultivation, particularly some of the unarmed ones, 

 as aureo-marginata and dlbo-marginata. There are also 

 some very prettily blotched and striped varieties, both gold and 

 -silver, and with or without prickly leaves. Some of the 

 unarmed green forms with very dark glossy green leaves, carti- 

 laginous on the margin, are worthy of a place in every collection, 

 including laurifolia, myrtifolia, ovata, &c. 



There are several other species of this gemus in cultivation, 

 but few equal and none excel the best varieties of the common 

 one, and none are so hardy. Those most commonly seen are : /. 

 crenata, a small-leaved compact bush from Japan ; /. latifolia, 

 also from Japan, a fine tree with very coriaceous serrated leaves 

 about the size of those of the Cherry Laurel ; /. Dahoon, a 

 very variable North American shrub. 



The species generally referred to Prlnos, in cultivation, 

 are : glabra, an evergreen shrub with small lanceolate leaves 

 and black berries ; and verticillata^ a deciduous shrub with 

 ovate-lanceolate leaves hairy on the veins beneath, and sessile 

 clusters of small white flowers followed by red berries. Both 

 are natives of North America, where the former bears the name 

 of Inkberry, and the latter that of Black Alder. 



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.A considerable order of trees and shrubs with opposite or 

 alternate simple leaves and minute stipules when present. 

 Flowers very small, greenish or white. Calyx small, lobes im- 

 bricate. Petals 4 or 5, imbricate. Stamens 4 or 5, inserted on 

 the disk, alternate with the petals. Fruit capsular (in Euony 

 mus), 3- to 5-celled, dehiscing loculicidally, cells 1- or 2-seeded ; 

 seeds invested in an aril, albumen fleshy. Chiefly tropical, 

 with the exception of the single genus included below. 



