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bilics and three ovoid seeds. It grows on the 
sea shore near Pensacola, and at Opelousas. The 
Indians use it as the Ilex vomitoria. 
364. Ilex opaca Aiton.—Ilex Rob. p. 514. Fine tree 
50 feet high, stem straight, bark smooth, whitish, 
foliage pyramidal and thick, flowers dioical, co¬ 
rolla white, rotate, four stamina opposed to its 
divisions! filaments subulated, anthers oblong: 
in the female flowers corolla deeply four parted, 
four sterile stamina, one sessile stigma ; berry 
red round four seeded. The species of Ilex with 
only one stigma, ought to form at least a sub¬ 
genus, and the genera Pultoria and Maurocenia 
ought to be re-established, 
CLASS XV.—DICOTYLES APETALES 
ID10GYNES. 
Order I.— Euphorbia. 
365. Euphorbia corollata L. Ti thy male Rob. p, 
515. It is the Ipecacuana of Louisiana, the In¬ 
dians who use it as such call it Pe-eca. 
366. Euphorbia ludoviciana Raf. Glabra, caule di~ 
chotomo diffuso prostrato, ramis divaricatis, foliis 
sessilibus carnosis denticulatis ; floribus solitaris, 
perianthus oblongus turbinatus quadrifidus, lacinis 
integris intus coloratis, capsulis longe pedicellatis* 
nutantibus. Raf.—Euphorbe couchee ou tithy- 
