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53. AQUTFOLIACE.E OR ILICACE.E. 
Little or no use is made of the w. somewhat hard and fine- 
grained wood except by cabinetmakers for inlaid work. 
This must be the Mad. pi. intended by Webb under the name 
of I. Aquifolium which he says (Phyt. Can. ii. 137) he found 
with Z. Perado in Rib. Frio. I cannot detect the least difference 
between the Mad. Azevim and Z canariensis Poir. — a pi. widely 
diffused in the Canaries and forming tr. 20-25 ft. high at LaEs- 
peranza above Laguna in Tenerife. 
A careful study and consideration of the above synonymy will 
probably be found to justify the preference of Solander’s original 
MS. name, though unentitled to precedence by priority of pub- 
lication : his Z Azevinho having been by some accident omitted 
in the Ilort. Ivew., though, in his MSS., equally well distin- 
guished and defined side by side with his Z Perado published 
in that work. 
Z cestivalis Lam. seems to have had the 1. or foliage of Z Aze- 
vinho with the fl. and inflorescence of Z Perado, and was pos- 
sibly a hybrid. Willdenow (Sp. i. 708) has referred it, with P, 
to Z Perado Ait. 
Z halearica Desf. is very possibly a mere var. (=Z. Aqui- 
folium 7 Lam. ?) of Z Aquifolium L. 
Z maderensis Willd., being unaccompanied by any description, 
has no claim whatever for adoption ; and indeed the name had 
been previously employed by Lamarck in a misspelled form 
( maderiensis ) for Z Perado Ait. 
1. canariensis Poir. is considered by Webb distinct from the 
Mad. Azevim ; and though I cannot agree in this opinion, hav- 
ing been unable to detect any real difference between them, the 
adoption of the name would be objectionable even were this 
identity entirely established. The Can. pi. is widely diffused 
in the islands, particularly in Tenerife ; where 1 especially ob- 
served it as a large shr. in one of Von Bucli’s localities for his 
Z Perado (not Ait.) Can. List p. 183, viz. at Agua Mansa above 
the Villa Orotava, and again forming a tr. 20-25 ft. high at La 
Esperanza above Laguna. In the Canaries the berries occasion- 
ally become even on the shr. quite black, as described by DC. 
1. c. In Mad. I have found this to be the case only when quite 
old or in dried spec. 
