I. Aquifolium Varieties 



same plant which is strikingly distinct and hand- 

 some, especially during the winter months. The 

 bark is usually reddish, but occasionally green. 

 The leaves are ovate-acuminate, about i f inches 

 long, the spines continuous but distant, placed 

 along the edge, or rarely few and scattered, 

 moderately divaricate, the disk dark green, 

 flushed or marbled with dull yellow green, the 

 edge unequally marked with tawny orange yellow, 

 sometimes extending over fully half of the leaf. 

 It is of upright or pyramidal habit, thickly clothed 

 with the medium-sized or rather small foliage, 

 and very distinct and peculiar on account of the 

 tawny hue which the variegation assumes during 

 the winter season. 



I. A. Cookii = obscura. A neat looking purple- 

 barked Holly, the leaves of which are broadly 

 ovate, flat, and furnished with even, moderate 

 sized spines. The disk is dark green mottled- 

 with grey and yellowish green the margin being 

 of the latter colour and narrow. Occasionally 

 whole leaves may be found green or yellow. It 

 is a female variety and not very ornamental 

 though distinct. 



I. A. heterophylla aureo marginata = laevi- 

 gata, " Striped Bay-leaved," Egham Holly 

 and Old Gold." A very striking and distinct 

 green-barked Holly with two distinct types of 

 leaf. One type is similar in form to an ordinary 

 spiny leaf of Common Holly with the addition of 



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