Holly, Yew and Box 



a golden edge. Leaves of this type vary from 2 

 to 3 inches in length and from i to ij inches in 

 width with wavy margins armed with numerous, 

 strong, divaricate spines. The disk is deep green, 

 splashed with grey and yellow, the whole being 

 edged with an irregular golden margin. The 

 other form of leaf is usually from 2j to 4 inches 

 long, by i f to 2 inches broad, with the spines very 

 few in number, entirely absent, or represented by 

 a terminal one only. What spines are borne are 

 strong and erratically placed. The disk is dark 

 glossy green heavily splashed with greenish yellow 

 and margined with the same. Sometimes quite 

 half the leaf is yellow whilst at others it is reduced 

 to a narrow but irregular border. It closely 

 resembles heterophylla aureo-picta but the latter 

 rarely has the variegation extending to the 

 margins of the leaves. 



I. A. laurifolia aurea = aureum mucronatum, 

 aurea longifolia and " Striped laurifolia." This 

 variety has usually purplish or reddish brown bark, 

 but sometimes greenish, and elliptic-ovate or ovate 

 leaves from 2 to i\ inches long, slightly wavy on 

 the margin, sometimes entirely, usually almost 

 spineless, occasionally with two to four erratic 

 spines on each side, dark glossy green, with 

 indistinct patches of paler green, and with a 

 narrow edge of bright, golden yellow. 



I. A. "Madame Briot." A distinct purple- 

 barked variety of continental origin, with oblong- 



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