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some have only staminate flowers. The staminate flowers are very 
ill-scented. A rapid-growing tree, with useful hard wood; cultivated 
and naturalized; hardy throughout. See page 10. 
ORDER XII. ILICINEZAS. (Hoty Famtity.) 
A small order of trees and shrubs, including for our 
purpose only one genus: 
Genus 18. ILEX. 
Trees or shrubs with simple, alternate, thick, mostly 
evergreen leaves. Flowers rather inconspicuous, mostly 
in clusters. Fruit berry-like, small (4 to 4 in.), with 4 to 
6 nutlets; hanging on the plants late in the autumn or 
through the winter. 
* Leaves evergreen. (A.) 
A. Leaves with spiny teeth. ......... sip uglaheainaneadinace aeeae ba Peidins 1. 
A INO Spiny P66 s, sencie sd apc a Secislebeemed ahaa gs eae 2. 
* Leaves deciduous .... 1. cece eee e eee ne nne 3. 
1. Hex opaca, Ait. (AMERICAN HOLLY.) 
Leaves evergreen, oval, acute, thick, smooth, N 
with scattered spiny teeth. Flowers white; 
May. The bright-red berries, found only on some 
of the trees, remain on through the greater part 
of the winter. Small 
tree, 15 to 40 ft. high, I onaca. 
with very hard white wood ; wild in south- 
ern NewEngland and southward. A beau- 
tiful broad-leaved, evergreen tree which 
should be more extensively cultivated. 
North of latitude 41° it needs a protected 
situation. 
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2. Ilex Dahéon, Walt. (Dauoon Hot- 
Ly.) Leaves 2 to 3 in. long, evergreen, 
oblanceolate or oblong, entire or sharply 
serrate toward the apex, with revolute 
I. Dahon, margins, not spiny. Young branches and 
