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THE HOLLY FAMILY. 



Intermediate Bladderwort. Utricularia intermedia, 



Hayne. (Fig. G61.) 



Intermediate in size between the com- 

 mon B. and the lesser B., and distin- 

 guished from both by the leaves crowded 

 in tufts at the ends of branches without 

 bladders, the bladders being few and 

 placed at the ends of leafless branches. 

 Flowers of a pale yellow, larger than in 

 the lesser B. f with a much more promi- 

 nent spur. 



In central and western Europe, much 

 more rare than the preceding species. 

 In Britain indicated in Dorsetshire, in 

 Forfarshire, and in western Ireland. 

 Fl. summer. I have not seen it grow- 

 ing, and from dried specimens I had 

 thought that the British plant so called, 

 usually barren, was a variety of the 

 lesser B., some of the bladder-bearing 

 branches showing a few leaves. Mr. J. 

 Carroll, of Cork, informs me however that it flowers abundantly be- 

 tween Gralway and Clifden, and cannot be confounded with the lesser 

 B., by any one who has seen the plants growing, 



Fig. 661. 



XLV. THE HOLLY FAMILY. AQUIFOLIACE^S. 



A small Order, widely spread over the globe, limited in Britain 

 to a single genus, from which the few exotic ones differ slightly 

 in the number of parts of the flower and fruit. They all nearly 

 approach the Oelastrus family, but have the petals usually united 

 into a monopetalous corolla, and the stamens inserted on its base, 

 without any fleshy disk round the ovary. 



I. HOLLY. ILEX. 



Shrubs or trees, with alternate leaves, and small flowers in axillary 

 clusters. Calyx of 4 or rarely 5 small teeth. Corolla regular, deeply 

 divided into as many segments or petals. Stamens as man}', inserted 



