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This description seems to fit a third form found in 

 gardens under the name of var. nana. 



T. baccata, var. nana, Bean and Dallimore (not Knight 

 or Paul). 



A plant so named at Glasnevin is of semi-procumbent 

 habit with branches spreading horizontally; a very low- 

 spreading bush, about 6 feet through, which fruits freely. 

 This is obviously not var. nana of Knight, nor var. nana of 

 W. Paul, and it seems very near to, if not identical with, 

 the above-described var. expansa, Carr. I have found no 

 other form in cultivation as var. expansa, and in the 

 circumstances I would suggest recognising this form as 

 var. expansa ; otherwise some other name must be suppHed 

 for it, as it cannot retain the name of nana, which by 

 priority belongs to var. nana. Knight. Bean (ii. 581, 

 1916) and Dallimore, in " HoUies and Yews," both 

 identify var. nana with a bush of " spreading habit," so 

 I conclude that this must be the form grown at Kew as 

 var. nana. 



T. baccata, var. epacroides, Beiss. (ii. 53). 



A fairly compact bushy form with leaves very short — • 

 about J inch; thin and narrow — about xV inch wide. 

 The branches are thin and irregular, and the branchlets 

 occur in irregular whorls at intervals up the branches; 

 the branchlets in such whorls being of various lengths 

 and mostly ascending at an extremely narrow angle. 

 At Aldenham House, Elstree, Herts, there is a plant of 

 this form — a loose, irregular bush about fifteen years old, 

 4 feet by 3 feet. 



T. baccata (?), var. repandens, Hort. 



Syn. : T. cuspidata repandens, Hort. 

 A low, almost prostrate form of densely radiating 

 branches. Fohage dark glossy green, variable in length; 

 mostly long and sickle-shaped, standing upright on the 



