1 7 14 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



divaricate spiny teeth. This has purplish branchlets, and is very vigorous in growth. 

 It is a staminate form, and is said 1 to be the best holly for planting in towns, being 

 less affected by smoke than the other kinds. 



Vars. nobilis and belgica, Moore, in Gard. Chron. ii. 433 (1874), are scarcely 

 distinct from /. Hodginsii. A form of the latter, called /. Hodginsii, " King Edward 

 VII.," with leaves mottled in the centre, and having a broad yellow margin, was put 

 in commerce in 1898 by Messrs. Little and Ballantyne. Var. nobilis variegata has 

 smaller leaves than /. Hodginsii, with a yellow blotch in the centre and a broad 

 green margin. 



/ Hodginsii is sold under the name /. Shepherdii, by the Handsworth Nurseries, 

 who inform us that Mr. Shepherd, past curator of the Liverpool Botanic Garden, 

 received two varieties of seedling hollies from Hodgins, nurseryman in the early 

 part of the nineteenth century at Dunganstown near Wicklow. 2 The late Mr. Holmes 

 obtained for the Handsworth Nurseries a stock of these varieties, one of which he 

 named /. Shepherdii and the other /. Hendersoni, the latter name after a friend of 

 the curator. Fine specimens of the original grafted plants still exist at Handsworth. 

 Mr. Holmes always asserted that it was to the variety /. Shepherdii that other 

 nurserymen subsequently applied the name /. Hodginsii? 



6. Ilex nigricans, Henry. 



Ilex Aquifolium, var. nigricans, Goeppert, in Gartenflora, iii. 319 (1854). 



Ilex Aquifolium, vars. atrovirens and nigrescens, Moore, in Gard. Chron. ii. 751, 752 (1874). 



Leaves ovate, 2\ to 3^ in. long, i| to 2 in. broad, dark shining green above; 

 differing from /. Hodginsii in the margin being almost flat or only slightly undulate, 

 with smaller sinuate teeth, ending in long slender spines, often very regular and 

 numerous. Under this name may be included perhaps two or three distinct forms, 

 sold as maderensis, maderensis atrovirens, platyphylla, etc. , the nomenclature of which 

 is at present confused in different nurseries. 



7. Ilex Hendersoni, Dallimore, Holly, Yew, and Box, 140 (1908). 



Ilex Aquifolium, var. Hendersoni, Moore, 4 in Gard. Chron. ii. 752, fig. 148 (1874). 

 Leaves elliptic or ovate, i\ to 3 in. long, 1^ to 2 in. broad, dull yellowish green 

 above ; mostly entire or sub-entire, or with a few short sinuate spinous teeth, the 

 margin being only slightly undulate. This is a female tree, which produces large red 

 fruit, but in no great abundance. 



8. Ilex camellicefolia, Henry. 



Ilex Aquifolium, var. camellicefolia, Koch, Dendrologie, ii. pt. i. 210 (1872); Moore, in Gard. 

 Chron. ii. 812, fig. 164 (1874). 



Leaves ovate-oblong, about 4 in. long and 2 in. broad, entire or with a few 

 small sinuate spiny teeth, the margin being slightly undulate ; upper surface deep 

 green and very shining ; petioles and branchlets purplish. This is a very vigorous 

 tree, with dense foliage, and is a female, bearing larger and darker coloured fruits 

 than the common holly. 



1 Hibberd, in Robinson, Eng. Flower Garden, 468 (1893). 2 C Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. i. 116 (1838). 



8 It is preferable to use /. Hodginsii, as it is now more commonly known, appearing as an alternative name in the 

 Handsworth Catalogue. /. Shepherdii is ambiguous, having been applied to both varieties. 4 Cf. p. 1 7 13, note 3. 



