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habit. The leaves are ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 i J to if inches long, less than i inch wide ; the 

 spines numerous, rather strongly developed for 

 the size of the leaf, usually flattish, but some- 

 times partially wavy ; the disk green, mottled, 

 and streaked with grey, and with a broadish, 

 tolerably regular edge of creamy white. One of 

 the most desirable and ornamental of the smaller- 

 leaved silver variegated varieties. 



I. A. argentea marginata pendula = " Perry's 

 Weeping," pendula argentea, pendula varie- 

 gata, alba marginata pendula, Perryana major, 

 pendula elegans marginata, and pendula argentea 

 purpurea. A fine and well-known variety of 

 weeping habit. It is of vigorous constitution 

 and belongs to the purple - barked series. 

 The leaves are 2j to 3 inches long, ovate or 

 ovate-oblong, the margins furnished with large 

 conspicuous spines, somewhat less crowded and 

 regular than in the variety " Hands worth New 

 Silver " ; the surface is green, freely blotched 

 with greyish-green, and the margin is irregularly 

 but often boldly marked with creamy white. 



I. A. argentea marginata purpurea. A fine 

 broad-leaved variety with purple bark. The 

 leaves are broadly ovate, 2j inches long and 

 about ij inches broad, the disk mottled with 

 dark green and greyish-green and the edge flat 

 and spiny, irregularly belted with creamy white. 

 Very distinct as regards the form of leaf. 



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