The plains produce corn, rice, and indigo; the forests of cedar, ilex, cork, and olive-trees are scattered over a vast extent, and contain antelopes, wild bears, and other species of game; Barbary also possesses an excellent breed of horses.

" CHAPTER XV On a perfect summer afternoon in mid-July, Lady Mary sat in the terrace garden at Barracombe, before the open windows of the silent house, in the shade of the great ilex; sometimes glancing at the book she held, and sometimes watching the haymakers in the valley, whose voices and laughter reached her faintly across the distance.

Then she had prized and coveted the solitude of a summer afternoon on the lawn, and had stolen away to read and dream undisturbed in the shadow of the ilex.

A deeply resented innovation was the appearance of the tea-table on the lawn before the windows, in the shade of the ilex-grove, which sheltered the western end of the terrace from the low rays of the sun.

" Lady Mary offered her arm with pretty solicitude, and guided her aged but perfectly active visitor through the drawing-roomwhere she stopped to comment favourably upon the water coloursto the terrace, where John was sitting in the shade of the ilex-tree, absorbed in the London papers.

Sarah, wrapped in her white cloak and hood, had already flitted across the moonlit terrace, into the deep shadow of the ilex grove; and the boy was by her side before John could reach the window she had just quitted.

The hills on which Simla stands are well clothed by trees, not of great stature generally, though of much beauty; ilexes of a peculiar kind, deodars, and rhododendrons being conspicuous among them; but there is little wood on the surrounding mountains.

This peculiar principle (theine) is also found in the leaves of the Ilex Paraguayensis, or Paraguay tea, used in South America, as a beverage.

To see the splendid ridge as Vergil saw it from the road one must now row the length of it from Naples to Nésida, sketching in an abundance of ilexes and goats in place of the villas that now cover it.]

It is a fertile district, and produces a species of ilex, which makes the tea so much used in South America.

" [Footnote 14: Ilex: a species of oak.] MRS.

But somehow in soft Posilippo the wind is tempered and the rain seems but a shower, and spring and summer, summer and spring, ever join hands amongst the ilexes and the laurels and the orange trees.

XI The July sun enclosed in a ring of fire the ilex grove of a villa in the hills near Siena.

Below, by the roadside, the long yellow house seemed to waver and palpitate in the glare; but steep by steep, behind it, the cool ilex-dusk mounted to the ledge where Ralph Marvell, stretched on his back in the grass, lay gazing up at a black reticulation of branches between which bits of sky gleamed with the hardness and brilliancy of blue enamel.

On the blackness of cork and ilex and cypress lay the green and purple lustres, the coppery iridescences, of old bronze; and night after night the skies were wine-blue and bubbling with stars.

Beads of perspiration stood on his forehead: the temperature of the room reminded him of the heat under the ilexes of the Sienese villa where he and Undine had sat through a long July afternoon.

The site on which this modern house now stands was Roman, before that Early Britain, with burial mounds, before that again, Druidthe Druid stones still lie in that copse below the field, the Tumuli among the ilexes behind the drive.

There are also some ilexes, or evergreen oaks, in Bushy Park, of a very large size, and apparently as hardy as any other tree there.

Duris ut ilex tonsa bipennibus Nigræ feraci frondis in Algido, Per damna, per cades, ab ipso Ducit opes animumque ferro.

You can make manure of litter, lupine straw, chaff, bean stalks, husks and the leaves of ilex and of oak.

If hay is short, feed the leaves of the ilex and ivy.

The chief woods used were cedar, pine, elm, olive, ash, ilex, beech, and maple.

A forest of ilex, covered with hoar-frost, thickened as it approached Vellikent, and at each verst the retinue of Verkhóffsky was swelled by fresh arrivals of Beglar and Agalar.

ILEX aquifolium.

40 Ilex opaca Carolina Holly b.l. 41 v. angustifolia Narrow-leaved ditto b.l. 42 primoides Deciduous ditto b.l. 43 Cassine Dahoon ditto l. 44 vomitoria South Sea Tea Tree l. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.