I. Aquifolium Varieties 



vexity of the leaf surface gives it a kind of 

 channelled appearance from the lifting up of the 

 edges. The plant has a tendency to a dwarfish, 

 dense habit of growth. 



I. A. serratifolia. One of the smaller neat- 

 leaved Hollies, a good deal resembling myrtifolia 

 but differing in its stiffer leaves having a more 

 elongated apex, its more decidedly divaricate 

 spines, and in its tendency to become 

 recurved at the point. This plant is of 

 pyramidal habit and well adapted for training 

 into formal specimens. The bark is green or 

 purplish. The leaves are lance-shaped in out- 

 line, about, or rather less, than ij inches long, 

 and about J inch broad, of a dark glossy green, 

 stiff, the midrib convexly curved so that the leaf- 

 edges are brought up and form a sort of channel 

 of the upper surface, with the numerous regular 

 and rather stout spines moderately divaricate. 

 The same variety is sometimes seen under the 

 name of angustifolia. 



Green-Leaved Varieties Recognised by the 

 Majority of their Leaves being Spine- 

 less or Bearing but a few Spines only 



I. A. camellisefolium = magnifica, laurifolium 

 longifolium, heterophylla major. Without doubt 

 this is one of the most ornamental of all the 

 varieties of the " Common Holly." It is of 

 vigorous habit and grows naturally into a hand- 



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