100 Lhicineea—L lex. 
very striking and others inferior to the type. Thus the 
varieties with white, yellow, or black berries, although interest- 
ing, are less effective than the scarlet-berried variety ; and the 
variety called ferér, or Hedgehog, in which the leaves are 
studded nearly all over with sharp prickles, is more remarkable 
than pretty, and the same may be said of ferdx aurea and 
feréx urgéntea, the Gold and Silver Hedgehog Hollies. In 
return, some of the gold and silver varieties are eminently de- 
serving of cultivation, particularly some of the unarmed ones, 
as aivreo-margindta and dlbo-margindta. There are also 
some very prettily blotched and striped varieties, both gold and 
silver, and with or without prickly leaves. Some of the 
unarmed green forms with very dark glossy green leaves, carti- 
lavinous on the margin, are worthy of a place in every collection, 
including lawrifilia, myrtifolia, ovata, &e. 
There are several other species of this genus in cultivation, 
but few equal and none excel the best varieties of the common 
one, and none are so hardy. Those most commonly seen are: I. 
crenata, asmall-leaved compact bush from Japan; J. latifolia, 
also from Japan, a fine tree with very coriaceous serrated leaves 
about the size of those of the Cherry Laurel; I. Dahdon, a 
very variable North American shrub. 
The species generally referred to Prinos, in cultivation, 
are: glabra, an evergreen shrub with small lanceolate leaves 
and black berries; and verticillata, a deciduous shrub with 
ovate-lanceolate leaves hairy on the veins beneath, and sessile 
clusters of small white flowers followed by red berries. Both 
are natives of North America, where the former bears the name 
of Inkberry, and the latter that of Black Alder. 
Orver XXX1—CELASTRINEA:. 
A considerable order of trees and shrubs with opposite or 
alternate simple leaves and minute stipules when present. 
Flowers very small, greenish or white. Calyx small, lobes im- 
bricate. Petals 4 or 5,imbricate. Stamens 4 or 5, inserted on 
the disk, alternate with the petals. Fruit capsular (in Eudny 
mus), 3- to 5-celled, dehiscing loculicidally, cells 1- or 2-seeded; 
seeds invested in an aril, albumen fleshy. Chiefly tropical, 
with the exception of the single genus included below. 
