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ILEX.—HOotty. 
fAn ancient Latin name.] 
Tex Aquifolium.—English Holly —An evergreen shrub 
or low tree, of which innumerable varieties have been 
raised. The silver and gold edged varieties are very 
beautiful. This species does not succeed well in this 
country, on account of our hot suns. 
I, opaca, — American, Holly. — This species is found 
plentifully in some parts of Massachusetts and southward. 
Mr. Emerson says of it: —“The American Holly is a 
handsome low tree, with nearly horizontal branches, and 
thorny evergreen leaves. The berries are scarlet, and re- 
main on the tree into winter. 
The plants, formerly called Prinos, are now considered 
by botanists as deciduous species of Ilex. 
I, verticillata.—(Prinos verticillatus.)—Black Alder. 
—This indigenous shrub, so ornamental in low grounds 
and swamps in autumn, is worthy of a place in every col- 
lection of shrubs. “It is a handsome shrub, five or six— 
rarely ten or twelve—feet high, with crowded branches 
and leaves, conspicuous for its bunches of axillary blos- 
soms and scarlet berries, remaining late in the autumn, or 
even into the winter. The recent shoots are clothed with 
an apple-green bark, which, on the large branches, turns 
to a pearly gray, and, on the older stems, is of a polished 
and clouded dark color, whence the plant derives its com- 
mon name.” The flowers are white, and not very orna- 
mental. The berries are of a bright scarlet, covering the 
twigs, the size of peas, in bunches of two or three, and 
remain long on the bush. The flowers expand in June; 
the berries are ripe in September. The Black Alder will 
require a peaty, moist soil. 
I, glabra.—(Prinos glaber.)—The Ink Berry. —“ An 
elegant, delicate-looking, evergreen shrub, with slender 
branches, growing in sheltered places, to the hoight of 
