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over-rated in popular sation tes It has bees long pos so generally 
noted, - ane Indian medicine, under the n of Pi cere that every 
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_— XLUT. AQUIFOLIA’CE. (Hotty — 
Il axillary 4-5 merous flowers, a minute calyx free from the 4— 
and the » 4 ~ 6- wegen) merey: - dru; Stamens a + aby as the di divisions or 
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the almbst‘o or quite 4—6-petalled corolla an alternate with t attached to their very 
base. espoae sana ated in the bud. ‘sna opening regulon. Stigmas 
united in arly sessile ; seed a suspended and nee in each cell. Albumen fies shy. 
Leaves ar iuauely alternate. 
1. I'LEX, L. Hotty. 
[The ancient Latin name of the Holly-Oak ; applied here.] 
Flowers more or less diceciously sl cera ted as many of them pete 
Cal: yer né-toothed. Petals 4 —6, se oo eb only united at the 
se - obovate, obtuse, spreading. ig 8 6. The berry-like drip 
ining 4— 8 little nutlets, iol altar Fertile flowers inclined 
to whe solitary, and the gest sterile agin to be clustered in the axils. 
2 1. Parts of the commonly in fours, sometimes in fives or sixes, 
most of them perfect ; nies red, y. fenldees ribbed, send or cne-grooved 
on the back ; leaves coriaceous and evergreen. AQuir 
EL ‘ca, Ait. Leaves oval, the margins wavy = ifieeP spinose- 
ae flowers scattered or loosely fasciculate along the base of the 
young branches and the axils. 
Opaque Ibex. American Holly. 
Stem 15-40 feet high ; branches spreading. Leaves 2-3 inches long ; petioles 34 of al 
inch i in pin Flowers whitish, ochr oleucous, ema; patients with minute bracts at roto 
Berries 0 age ohana pit , red ed w 
a0 ne Maine and poe ta ae 
Obs. This becomes a handsome “it tle tree under eatublgen: 2a : a by 
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that there w me years ¢ ago, at the iighianis of Neversitik, New 
J several trees of unusual dimensio; ons, some 0! 
ol body. The celebrated al Tea, or “ « Mate,” 
which is a substitute for both tea and coffee to a eae 
