



DESCEIPT1VE LIST OF GARDEN IVIES. 



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only half the size of that variety, are less distinctly veined, and in winter assume a 

 deep, dull purplish brown colour. Though curious and pretty, it is scarcely to be 



Palmata. 



valued because of its strange winter colour, which renders it an undesirable variety 

 for pot culture except in a collection, where undoubtedly it will prove interesting. 

 Figured at page 83, and in the border of the coloured frontispiece. 



GROUP 2. VARIEGATED CLIMBING FORMS OF HEDERA HELIX. 



A. VARIEGATION WHITISH OR " SILVERY." 



MARGINATA, The white-margined ivy (syn. Argentea elegant). This repre- 

 sents a large and lovely group, the members of which differ sufficiently to have 

 separate recognition, yet very closely agree in their general characters, the leaves 

 being broadly margined with whitish or creamy variegation, and the central parts 

 of the leaf showing tints of grey and_ bluish green, with patches of dark 

 green. Marginata. has green stems; the leaf -stalks are slightly purplish. They 



