AQUIFEROUS

aqua, water, and In an A*k-wi?f'e?r-u . Lat., aquifer us (from vre,to bear). Fr., aquifére. Ger., wa ertragend. Water-carrying (said of the Water-vascular system of the Annuloida, [B,28.] See A, CANALS. AQUIFOLIACEÆ (Lat.), n. f. pl. A?k(a8k)-wi?-fo-li?-a(a3)/se?- From acus, a needle, and folium, a leaf. Fr., aquip., aquifolidecas, Syn.: Ilicinece. The holly worts; ystems of De Candolle, Reichenbach, Lindley, and others, an order of shrubs or trees bearing simple, evergreen, exstipulate leaves; and small axillary flowers with 4 to 6 very minute sepals, a » 4-cleft or 6-cleft hypogynous corolla, a definite number of stamens inserted into the corolla and alternate with its segments, and a 2- to ovary with a single ovule suspended in each cell. The fruit is drupacéous. The principal genera are Ilex, Prinos, and Ca ine. [B, 34, 104.]