212 NOTES ON THE VARIETIES OF ENGLISH HOLLY. 



A. LEA VES GREEN. 

 GROUP I. Green Hollies resembling the type. 



1. Ilex Aquifolium. This must be considered as the 

 progenitor of those which are to follow, and is too well 

 known to need description. Its dominant feature consists 

 in the dark glossy green leaves of elliptical outline, armed 

 with long spiny teeth, and very much undulated at the 

 margin. The offspring are in some few instances hybrid- 

 ised with other species, but in the majority of cases they 

 are mere variations from seed or sports of nature. 



2. I. A.pendula. This beautiful variety resembles the 

 parent except that it is of drooping growth. It forms the 

 handsomest of all pendulous evergreen trees, and bears 

 berries as freely as the type. 



3. /. A. fructu aurantiaco The orange-berried Holly 

 also resembles the type, except that it bears orange- 

 coloured instead of red berries, and is highly ornamental. 



4. /. A. fructu luteo. Yellow-berried, has paler foliage 

 and berries than the preceding, and is altogether of a 

 smoother aspect ; a beautiful tree. 



5. /. A. compacta. Forms a closer and denser bush 

 than the common sort, with shorter and thicker leaves, and 

 scarcely rises into a tree. 



6. /. A. Handsworthiana. Similar to the preceding, 

 but of larger growth with longer leaves. 



GROUP II. Broad-leaved green. 



7. I.A.Beetii. Leaves broad, much waved. A shining- 

 leaved, smooth-looking sort, having somewhat the aspect 

 of Ilex cornuta. 



8. LA. Foxii. Leaves larger in every part, and darker 

 in colour than the preceding. A compact, good-looking 

 sort. 



9. I. A. hybrida. Leaves and shoots more erect than 

 in the two previous kinds, forms a handsome pyramid, and 

 bears berries freely. 



