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ERIC ACEiE — ILICINE.K. 
ceme, cal. -segments triangular rounded notched, stam. regu- 
larly incurved style long straight, stigma 5-Iobed without a ring 
or points. — E. B. 517. St. 13. 13. — L. white, drooping, oval- 
oblong, nearly closed. Style very long, exserted. L. numerous. 
— Mossy alpine woods. P. VII. 
11. Moneses Salisb. 
1. M. grandifora (Salisb.). The only species. — Pyrola Sm. 
E. B. 146. — L. few, roundish, serrated. Fl. solitary, terminal, 
large, drooping, white, open, nearly an inch broad. Stam. 
shorter than the pet. and closely adpressed to them. Stigmas 
very large. — Alpine woods. P. VI. VII. S. 
Tribe V. Monotropece. 
12. Monotropa Linn. 
1. M. Hypopitys (L.) ; fl. in a drooping cluster, lateral ones 
with 8 terminal with 10 stamens, fr. erect, bracts and fl. glabrous 
externally. — E. B. 69. — Inner side of the pet., filaments, germen 
and style glabrous (Hypopitys glabra Bernh., DC), or hairy 
(H. rmdtiflora Scop., DC.), but these differences do not appear 
to me to be constant. — Plant 6 — 8 in. high, succulent, simple, 
clothed with ovate scales, terminating in a short cluster, dingy 
yellow, at length turning nearly black. Fl. with large scaly 
bracts, not parasitical. (See Phyt. i. 341.) The clusters are 
sometimes erect. — Woods. P. VII. VIII. Yellow Bird' s-nest. 
Order XLIX. ILICINEiE. 
Sep. inferior, 4 — 6, imbricated. Cor. regular, 4 — 6-parted, 
imbricate. Stam. inserted into the base of the corolla and al- 
ternate with its lobes. Disk 0. Ovary 2— 6-celled ; ovules 
solitary, pendulous, with a cupshaped funiculus. Fr. fleshy, 
not bursting ; seeds stony, 2 — 6. 
1. Ilex. Cal. 4 — 5-fid, persistent. Cor. rotate, 4 — 5-fid. 
Stam. 4 — 5, inserted upon the corolla. Stigmas 4 — 5, 
nearly sessile. Fr. fleshy, containing 4 — 5 1 -seeded nuts. 
1. Ilex Linn. 
1. /. A qui folium (L.) ; 1. ovate acute spinous wavy shining, 
peduncles axillary short many-flowered, fl. somewhat umbellate. 
— E. B. 496. St. 7. 4. — A small tree with evergreen leaves which 
are quite entire on the upper branches but edged with strong 
spinous teeth and terminated by a spine on the lower ones. 
Fl. white. Berries scarlet. — Woods and hedges. T. VI. — VIII. 
Holly. 
