I. Aquifolium Varieties 



Fisher, Holmes & Co., and remarkable for its 

 purple bark, and the dark green tint of its small 

 peculiarly shaped foliage. The leaves vary from 

 inch to ij inches in length, and are about J 

 inch in breadth irrespective of the spines, which 

 are large and very prominent for the size of the 

 leaf, and consist usually of one or two pairs on 

 each side at the base, but occasionally more, the 

 upper half of the leaf forming a large, entire, 

 oblong, bluntish lobe, not unfrequently emar- 

 ginate ; hence the whole leaf in the case of those 

 which are few-spined below, and have the apex 

 entire, has a strongly marked hastate figure. 

 The plant appears to be of rather dwarf habit, 

 but is one of the most distinct in character of all 

 the green-leaved varieties. Mr Moore received 

 this variety from the collection at Ochtertyre 

 under the name of heterophylla, which is a very 

 different thing. This variety is so utterly unlike 

 the broad-leaved latispina in aspect and general 

 character, that we prefer to adopt the highly 

 suggestive name, hastata, which it bears in some 

 collections. M. Lcesener gave the varietal name 

 of kewensis a few years ago. 



I. A. latispina. A grand and most effective 

 Holly, being of free growth with a fine pyramidal 

 habit. The bark of the young shoots is dark 

 purple. The leaves vary from about 2 inches to 

 2^ inches long, and from i inch to i| inches 

 broad ; they are somewhat quadrate in their 



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