Trees; a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory . f the general plane,bordered by a tough marginal vein. Ilex Aquifolium, L. Holly (Fig. 61). Small treewith crowded sub-verticillate branches and spinescentleaves, persisting more than a year. Petiole short, stipulesobsolete (see p. 20). Lamina ovate, oblong or elliptic,acute or acuminate, 6—10 x 3—5 cm., stiff and leathery,tough and thick, the margins and even surface muchwaved; glabrous, deep shining green above, paler andduller beneath. Teeth strong and sharp, and, like themargins, strengthened by a cartilaginous rim,
Trees; a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory . f the general plane,bordered by a tough marginal vein. Ilex Aquifolium, L. Holly (Fig. 61). Small treewith crowded sub-verticillate branches and spinescentleaves, persisting more than a year. Petiole short, stipulesobsolete (see p. 20). Lamina ovate, oblong or elliptic,acute or acuminate, 6—10 x 3—5 cm., stiff and leathery,tough and thick, the margins and even surface muchwaved; glabrous, deep shining green above, paler andduller beneath. Teeth strong and sharp, and, like themargins, strengthened by a cartilaginous rim, and notalways attaining the size of lobes : on old stems the upperleaves may be entire or with a few small spinescent teethat the apex. Dead leaves yellow, falling in with variegated Leaves and with spines over thesurface occur. 204 HOLLY Venation pinnate-reticulate and looped. The second-aries leave the midrib in pinnate order, at first nearlystraight, then curving outwards and tending to loop back-wards, losing themselves in reticulations beneath the. Fig. 61. Holly, Ilex Aquifolium, p. 203 (D). margin, the branches of which unite into a strong marginalvein: a few run to the margin. Tertiaries leaving theinner sides of secondaries at acute angles, the outer atvarious open angles, and forming prominent large meshes. BITTERSWEET, ETC. 205 (ii) Leaves neither spinescent nor evergreen,(a) Leaves exstipulate. Solanum Dulcamara, L. The Bittersweet has themajority of its leaves ovate-acute, cordate at the base, andentire; but they are often lobed at the base and hastate,or tripartite, or have an odd auricle. See p. 304. (ft) Leaves stipulate. * Leaves broadly triangular ovate or pent-agonal in form, and with pseudo-palmatevenation, the lower secondaries longest. t Leaves white-tomentose or hoary beneath,at least while young; base not tapering ordecurrent. All the secondary veins passingto the lobes. Shoots not thorny. © Lobes triangular, acute, sharply serrate,the
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