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TETRANDRIA, TETRAGYNIA. 
opaca* 
simplex, 
Nutt. 
ORDER IV. TETRAGYNIA. 
88. ILEX, Gen. pi. 232. C Rhayimi.J 
Calix minute, 4, 5-toothed. Corolla rotate, 
4 parted. Style 0. Stigmata 4. Berry 
4- seeded. 
1. I. leaves oval, with rigid, spreading, spinous 
teeth ; fascicles of flowers lax, on compound pe- 
duncles ; calices somewhat acute, smooth j fruit 
ovate. — Mich. 
Icon. Mich. f. Arbres forest, t. 11. 
A beautiful evergreen tree, bearing scarlet berries. In 
Jersey, near Haddonfield, rare. June. 
89. TILL./£A, X. ( SemperH3in)a,J 
Calix 3 or 4-parted. Petals 3 or 4, equal. 
Capsules 3 or 4, two or many-seeded. Sta- 
mina sometimes 8, 4 sterile. — Nutt. 
1, T. stem erect, simple; leaves connate, oblong- 
linear, somewhat acute ; flowers alternate, sessile ; 
petals erect, twice the length of the calix. — Nutt. 
Stem generally simple, erect and terete, (two or three inches 
high) sometimes decumbent near the base, and sending out 
whitish radical fibres, tinged with red, similar to the proper 
root. Leaves connate, succulent, convex on the under side, 
fragile, very entire, and without visible nerves or veins (three 
or four lines long, and about a line wide) Flo^ivers sessile, 
axillary, solitary, and alternate. Caiix four-toothed, segments 
alternating with the petals, two of the exterior dentures some- 
what larger and obtuse. Petals four, ovate, erect, and persist- 
ent, never apparently expanding, whitish and membranaceous, 
embracing the capsules with which they are almost exactly 
equal in length. Stamina four, fertile, alternating with the 
petals, a little shorter than the germs ; anthers very small^ 
