3. 
THE ILEX. 
Quercus lex. 
Pirate 1, Fie. 3. 
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many hundreds of years gives to 
the Ilex, or Evergreen Oak, the 
right to claim a place amongst 
our woodland Trees. Unusual 
interest, too, centres around this 
j Tree, for the reason that it is proba- 
py bly identical with the Oak referred to 
in Scripture. Authorities, of course, 
differ on this point; but it is generally ad- 
mitted, by those who are adverse to the belief 
in the identity of Quercus ilex with the Oak of 
the Bible, that the last-named species at least 
