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2. M. Hyp6pitys, L. (Pine-sap. False Beech-drops.) Somewhat 

 pubescent or downy, tawny, whitish, or reddish (4' -12' high) ; pod globular 

 or oval ; stigma ciliate. — Occurs in various forms ; the more pubescent is M. 

 lanuginosa, Michx. — Oak and pine woods : common. June - Aug. (Eu.) 



Order .57. GALAClNEa;. (Galax Family.) 



Character that of the following genus ; which is kept as a distinct order 

 until the true relationship is ascertained. 



1. GALAX, I/. Galax. 



Calyx of 5 small and separate sepals, persistent. Petals 5, hypogynous, ob- 

 ovate-spatulate, rather erect, deciduous. Stamens hypogynous ; filaments united 

 in a 10-toothed tube, slightly cohering with the base of the petals, the 5 teeth 

 opposite the petals naked, the 5 alternate ones shorter and bearing each a round- 

 ish 1 -ceiled anther, which opens across the top. Pollen simple. Style short; 

 stigma 3-lobed. Pod ovoid, 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved : columella none. 

 Seeds numerous, the cellular loose coat tapering to each end. Embryo straight 

 in flesliy albumen, more than half its length. — A smooth herb, with a thick 

 matted tuft of scaly creeping rootstoeks, beset with fibrous red roots, sending up 

 round-heart-shaped crenate-toothed and veiny shining leaves (about 2' wide) on 

 slender petioles, and a, slender naked scape, l°-2° high, bearing a wand-like 

 spike or raceme of small and minutely-bracted white flowers. (Name from 

 •yii'Xa, milk, — of no conceivable application to this plant. ) 



1. G. apb^lla, L. — Open woods, Virginia and southward. June. 



Oedee 58. AQUIFOLIACEjE. (Holly Family.) 



Trees or shrubs, with small axillary 4 - S-merous flowers, a minute calyx 

 free from the i - 8-celled ovary and the 4 - 8-seeded berry-like drupe ; the 

 stamens as many as the divisions of the almost or quite 4 — 8-petalled corolla 

 and alternate with them, attached to their very base. — Corolla imbricated 

 in the bud. Anthers opening lengthwise. Stigmas 4-8, or united into 

 one, nearly sessile. Seeds suspended and solitary in each cell, anatropous, 

 with a minute embryo in fleshy albumen. Leaves simple, mostly alternate. 

 Flowers white or greenish. — A small family, here represented by only 

 two genera (Prinos being placed under Ilex) ; related to the Celastracese, 

 &c., among the Polypetalous orders as much as to the following order. 



1. ILEX, L. (Ilex & Prinos, Z.) Holly. 



Flowers more or less dioeciously polygamous. Calyx 4 - 6-toothed. Petals 

 4-6, separate, or united only at the base, oval or obovate, obtuse, spreading. 

 Stamens 4-6. The berry-like drupe containing 4 - 6 little nutlets. — Leaves 

 alternate. Fertile flowers inclined to be solitary, and the sterile or partly sterile 

 flowers to be clustered in the axils. (The ancient Latin name of the HoUy-Oak 

 rather than of the Holly.) 

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