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48. AQUrPOLIACE^. 
without a ring or points.—^. B. 517. St. 13. 13. — Fl. white 
drooping, oval-oblong, nearly closed. Style very long, exserted. 
L. many. — Mossy alpine woods. P. VII. E. S. I. 
11. Mone'ses Salish. ey S. F. Gray. 
1. J/, uniflora (A. Gray). — E. B. 146. Pyrola unijlora 
L. — L. few, roundish, serrate. Fl. solitary, terminal, large, 
drooping, white, open, nearly an inch broad. Stam. shorter 
than the pet. and closely adpressed to them. Stigmas very 
large. — Woods in the north and west of Scotland, rare. P. 
VI. VII. s. 
Tribe V. Monotropece. 
12. Monot'eopa Limi. 
1. M. Hypo2)'itys (L.); fl. in a drooping cluster, 8 stam. in 
terminal, 10 in lateral fl., fr. erect, bracts and fl. glabrous ex- 
ternally. — E. B. 69. Hyjjopitys Monotropa (Crantz). — Inner 
side of the pet., filaments, germen and style glabrous {H. glabra 
Bernh., DC.) or hairy {M. uivJtiflora Scop., DC.).— Plant 6—8 
in. high, succulent, simple, clothed with ovate scales, terminating 
in a short cluster, dingy yellow, turning nearly black. Fl. 
with large scale-like bracts. Fr. ovoid erect. Not parasitical. 
Clusters sometimes erect. — Woods. P. VII. VTII. Yelloiv 
Bird's nest. E. S. I. 
Order XLVIII. AQUIFOLIACE^. 
Sep. inferior, 4 — 9. imbricate. Cor. regular, 4 — 6-parted, 
imbricate. Stam. inserted upon the base of the corolla and 
alternate with its lobes. Disk 0. Ovary 2 — 6-celled ; ovules 
solitary, pendulous, with a cup-shaped seed-stalk. Fr. fleshy, 
not bursting ; seeds stony, 2 — 6. — Stipules small, deciduou-;. 
1. Ilex. Cal. 4 — 5-fid, persistent. Cor. rotate, 4 — 5-fid. 
Stam. 4 — 5. Stigmas 4 — 5, nearly sessile. Fr. fleshy, 
containing 4 — 5 seeds. 
1. I LEX Linn. Holly. 
1. 1. A'/uifoltu/it (L.) ; 1. ovate acute spinous wavy shining, 
])eduncles axillary short many-flowered, fl. somewhat umbellate, 
— E. B. 496. St. 7. 4. — A small tree. L. evergreen, often 
