XI* 



I. AQUIFOLIUM VARIETIES Continued 

 Varieties with Average-Sized Green Leaves 



I A. alcicornis. A distinct large-leaved 

 Holly, remarkable for its very spiny 

 leaves. It is a free growing variety, 

 and one of those in which the young 

 bark is green. The leaves are bright green, 3^ 

 inches long by if inches broad, oblong obovate 

 in outline, with an entire wedge-shaped base, the 

 rest of the margin furnished with numerous long, 

 narrow, stiff, sharply-pointed spines f of an inch 

 in length. 



I. A. chinensis. This is a form found in 

 Central China, and resembles the type in 

 many respects. Herbarium specimens, however, 

 suggest a more slender habit and thinner leaves 

 than is usually the case in the species. Small 

 plants in the Coombe Wood nursery also give 

 evidence of these peculiarities. 



I. A. costata =" Grecian Holly." This is one 

 of the varieties sent out from the Hands worth 

 Nurseries, Sheffield. It belongs to the series 

 with purple or reddish-purple bark, while the 

 deep green leaves, which are 2| inches long and 



* Many of the descriptions contained in this chapter are based 

 on those of Thomas Moore's, which appeared in the Gardener? 

 Chronicle, 1874. 



