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ILEX, 



The H L L Y - T R E E. 

 Clafs 4. Order 3. Tetrandria Tetragynia. 



THE Empalement is four toothed, very frnaH and permanent. 

 The Corolla confifts of one petal, four-parted and plane: 

 the divifions are roundilK, concave, fpreadmg, pretty 

 large, and cohering by claws. 

 The Filaments are four, awl-fliaped, and fhorter than the corol- 



la. ThQAnthera are fmall. 

 The Germen is roundiih. The Style none. The Stigmas are 



four and obtufe. 

 The Seed-vejfel is a berry, roundifh and four cell'd. 

 The Seeds are folitary, bony, oblong, obtufe, gibbous on one 



fide and angled on the other. 

 Obf. The flowers are in fome fpecies male upon one plant, and 

 female and hermaphrodite upon a different plane. 



The Species with iis^ are^ 



I. Ilex AquLfolivim. American Common Holly. 



This grows in Maryland, New Jerfey, &c. gene- 

 rally in moill ground, rifing to the height of fifteen 

 or twenty feet, with an ered ftem, covered with a. 

 greyilh coloured fmooth bark, and furniihed with 

 pretty many branches, which are garniflied with 

 thick, hard, ever-green leaves, waved on their edges 

 and indented, each point terminating in a ftiif prick- 

 ly fpine. The flowers are produced upon pretty 

 long footftalks, often three parted from the fides of 

 the branches, of a white colour, having often five 

 or fix ftamina, and the corolla divided into as many 

 parts, and are fucceeded by roundiih berries, which 

 when full ripe are red. Of the bark of common 

 Holly is made Birdlime, which is better than that 

 made of Mifletoe, 



2. Ilex 



