XXI. AQUIFOLIA CEZ!: PRI‘NOS. 163 
Engravings. Willd. Hort. Berol., t. 31,, under the name of J. Cassine ; our fig. 230, from a plant 
in Loddiges’s arboretum, and jig. 231. from the Hort. Berolin. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves lanceolately elliptical, nearly entire, almost revolute 
in the margin; the midrib, petiole, and branchlets villous. Flowers dis- 
posed in corymbose panicles, that are upon lateral and terminal peduncles, 
(Dec, Prod.) A beautiful evergreen shrub or low tree. Carolina to Flo- 
rida, inswamps. Height 8 ft. to 10 ft. Introduced in 1726. Flowers white; 
May and June. Drupe red ; ripe in December. 
The leaves of this species are very numerous, 
.and resemble those of Latrus Borbonia. The 
plant is rare in British gardens, and seldom ripens 
230. Mex Dahodn. 231. Ilex Dahodn. 
fruit. It is most commonly kept in green-houses or pits: but there was a 
plant in 1836 in the open air, in the Mile End Nursery, which was 20 ft. high, 
with a head 30 ft. in diameter ; and which had stood there many years, with- 
out the slightest protection. 
Other Species of \iex are described by authors as natives of North America 
and Nepal, some of which are introduced, and may probably be found hardy, 
but we can state nothing with certainty respecting them. In this genus, as 
in most others containing numerous species which are not in general cultiva- 
tion, there is a great deal of uncertainty. J. Cassine, I. vomitoria and J, 
Dahoén are probably the same species. 
Genus III. 
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PRI'NOS L. Tue Prinos, or Winter Berry. Lin, Syst. Hexandria 
Monogfnia, or Polygamia Dice’cia. | 
Identification. Lin. Gen., No. 461.; Dec. Prod., 2. p.16.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 20. 
fynonymes. Agéria Adans. Fasn. 2, p. 166.; Apalanche, Fr. ; Winterbeere, Ger. 
erivation. From prinos, the Greek name for the holly, which the present genus much resembles ; 
or, according to others, from prion, a saw, on account of the serrated leaves of the species. 
Gen. Char. Flowers 6-cleft, hexandrous ; usually dicecious, or polygamous 
from abortion. Fruit with 6 nuts. In other respects the character is the 
same as that of I‘lex. (Don’s Mill.) : 
Leaves simple, axillary, exstipulate, deciduous or evergreen ; oval or 
lanceolate, entire or serrated; dying off of a greenish yellow. Flowers 
on axillary pedicels, usually single, small, mostly white. — Shrubs, ever- 
green and deciduous ; natives of North America. 
In habit of growth the species are all more or less fastigiate, and send up 
aumerous suckers from the collar; but, if these were removed, the plants 
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