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ILEX. 
The H O L L Y - T R E E. 
Oaf’s 4. Order 3. Tetrandria Tetragynia. 
T HE Empalement is four toothed, very fmall and permanent. 
The Corolla confifts of one petal, four-parted and plane-: 
the divifions are roundiih, concave, fpreading, pretty 
lar^e, and cohering by claw?. 
The Filaments are four, awl-lhaped, and ihorter than the corol- 
la. The Antherce are fmall. 
The Germen is roundiih. The Style none. The Stigmas are 
four and obtufe. 
The Seed-veffel is a berry, roundiih 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 plant. 
The Species with ns, are , 
1. Ilex Aquifolium. American Common Holly . 
This grows in Maryland, New Jerfey, &c. gene- 
rally in moiit ground, rifmg to the height of fifteen 
or twenty feet, with an ere£t ftera, covered with a 
greyifli coloured fmooth bark, and furnifhed with 
pretty many branches, which are garnifhed with 
thick, hard, ever-green leaves, waved on their edges 
and indented, each point terminating in a fliff prick- 
ly fpine. The flowers are produced upon pretty 
long footftalks, often three parted from the Tides 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 
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