I. Aquifolium Varieties 



upwards; the terminal one, however, which tips the 

 long acuminated apex, is pointed downwards. It is 

 a free growing, fine-looking, and very characteristic 

 Holly. We learn from Messrs Fisher, Holmes 

 & Co., that this variety was sent out by them. 



I. A. trapeziformis. The affinity of this 

 Holly is with montrosa and latispina, coming 

 nearer to the latter, but having smaller leaves 

 with fewer and less grotesquely placed spines. 

 The bark of the young wood is purple. The 

 leaves have a quadrate or squarish limb, bearing 

 a strongly developed terminal spine forming an 

 acuminate point, which is more or less recurved, 

 and generally inclined to one side, the obliquity 

 thus produced having apparently suggested the 

 name ; they are about 2 inches in length, by 

 i inch in breadth, of a very deep green colour, 

 and have a wavy margin with occasionally one or 

 two erratic divaricate spines. 



Other Green-Leaved Varieties 



I. A. ciliata major. A free growing vigorous 

 variety, the young shoots of which have purple bark. 

 The leaves are ovate or ovate-oblong, flattish, 

 margined in a ciliate manner with long, crowded, 

 broad-based, plane spines, the basal portion of the 

 leaf usually entire, and the apex more or less pro- 

 longed. The colour is a dark glossy green, with 

 here and there an olive tinge ; altogether it is a 

 very distinctly marked and desirable variety. 



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