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OEDER XXV. ILICINE^. 
1. ILEX. 
1. I. AQUiFOLiUM. Holly. May. Tree. 
In hedges and bushy places on dry hills. 
0 Reader, hast thou ever stood to see 
The Holly Tree ? 
He that contemplates it well perceives 
Its glossy leaves 
Ordered by an Intelligence so wise 
As might confound the Atheist’s sophistries. 
Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen 
Wrinkled and keen ; 
No grazing cattle through their prickly round 
Can reach to wound ; 
But as they grow where nothing is to fear. 
Smooth and unarm’d the pointless leaves appear. 
1 love to view these things with curious eyes. 
And moralize ; 
And in this wisdom of the Holly Tree 
Can emblems see. 
Wherewith, perchance, to make a pleasant rhyme. 
One which may profit in the after-time. 
Thus, though abroad, perchance, I might appear 
Harsh and austere 
To those who on my leisure would intrude 
Reserv’d and rude. 
Gentle at home amid my friends I’d be. 
Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. 
Southey. 
ORDER XXVI. CELASTRINE^. 
1. euonymus. 
1. E. EUROP^us. Spindle-tree. May. 12 
In hedges and thickets. Wood near the Priory gate, Knaresbro’. 
Hedges between York and Tadcaster. In Clink Bank wood, near 
Richmond. In Crow Nest wood, three miles north west of Settle. 
New Holme heck, two miles and a half north west of Whitby. 
One of the four plants that the caterpillar of Acherontia Atropos, (the Death’s Head,) has been found 
upon in this county. 
