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2. Ilex Cafline. Dahoon , or Carolinian Holly . 
This grows naturally in Carolina, rifmg with an 
upright branching Item to the height of eighteen or 
twenty feet. The bark of the (tem is of a brown 
colour, but that of the branches and young (hoots 
green and fmooth. The leaves are fpeardhaped, 
above four inches long and one and a quarter broad 
toward the bafe, of a light green colour and thick 
confidence, with their upper parts fawed on the 
edges, each ferrature ending in a fmall fharp fpine. 
The flowers come out in thick cluders from the Tides 
of the branches, they are white and like thofe of the 
common Holly, but fmaller, and are fucceeded by 
# fmall roundiih red berries. 
3. Ilex canadenfis. Canadian , or Hedge-hog 
Holly . 
The leaves of this kind are not fo long as thofe 
of the Common Holly, but are armed with dronger 
fpines danding clofer together, their upper furfaces 
are alfo fet very clofe with fhort prickles, from 
whence it obtained the name of Hedge-hog Holly. 
It grows naturally in Canada. There are faid to be 
two varieties of this with variegated leaves, one of 
which is yellow, the other white. 
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Clafs 5. Order 1. Pentandria Monogynia. 
^'PHE Empalement is one leaved, five cleft, ereft, fharp point- 
“*■ ed, very fmall, and permanent ; the divifions are acute and 
coloured. 
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