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Obdbe LV. AQUIFOLIA'CE^. (Holly Family.) 



Shrubs or small trees, with small axillary polygamous or 

 dioecious flowers, the parts mostly in fours or sixes. Calyx 

 very minute, free from the ovary. Stamens alternate with 

 the petals, attached to their base, the corolla being almost 

 polypetalous. Anthers opening lengthwise. Stigma nearly 

 sessile. Pruit a berry-like 4-8-seeded drupe. 



1. UEX, L. Holly. 



I. vertieilla'ta, Gr. (Black Aldbr. Wintbebbeey.) A 

 shrub with the greenish flowers in sessile clusters, or the 

 fertile ones solitary. Parts of the flowers mostly in sixes. 

 Fruit bright red. Leaves alternate, obovate, oval, or wedge- 

 lanceolate, pointed, veiny, serrate. — Swamps and low 

 grounds. 



2. tiTEMOPASr'THES, Eaf. Mountain Holly. 



N. Canadensis, DC. A branching shrub, with grey bark, 

 and alternate oblong nearly entire smooth leaves on slender 

 petioles. Flowers on long slender axillary peduncles, mostly 

 solitary. Petals 4^5, oblong-linear, distinct. Fruit light 

 red. — Moist woods. 



Oedee LVI. PRIMDLA'CKS. (Pbimeose Family.) 



Herbs with regular perfect flowers, well marked by having 

 a stamen before each petal or lobe of the corolla and inserted 

 on the tube. Ovary 1-celled, the placenta rising from the 

 base. Style 1 ; stigma 1. 



Synopsis of the Cenera. 



* Stemless. Leaves all in a cluster from the root. 



1. Prlm'nla. Flowers in an umbel at the summit of a simple scape- 



Corolla salver-shaped or funnel-form, open at the throat. Stamens 

 5, included. 



2. Andros'ace. Flowers very small, white, In an umbel at the summit 



of a scape. Corolla salver-shaped or funnel-form, constricted at 

 the throat. Stamens Included-— N.W. 



3. Do(lecath'eou> Flowersshowy,rose-colouredor white, in an umbel 



at the summit of a scape. Corolla reflexed, 5-parted. Stamens 

 exserted, connivent in a slender cone.— N.W. 



