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unhealthy aspect. There are also varieties with the leaves striped or 
blotched with white only, and others with only golden-striped leaves. 
¥ F.s. 5 heterophilla. F.s, laciniata Lodd. Cat. ed. 1836; F.s. as- 
plenifolia Lodd. Cat. ed. 1836; F.s. incisa Hort. ; PF. s. salicifolia 
Hort, ; Hétre a Feuilles de Saule, Fr.; the various, or cut, leaved 
1692 F.s. heterophyiia. 1695. F. s. heterophflla. 
Beech. — The leaves variously cut, as in fig. 1692.; sometimes in 
narrow shreds, so as to resemble a fern, as in jig. 1693. ; and, at 
other times, in shreds of greater breadth, like the leaves of a willow. 
This variety, which may be designated as more curious than beauti- 
ful, is very apt to return to 
the normal form. 
¥ F.s. 6 cristata Lodd, Cat. ed. 
1836, F. s. crispa Hort.; 
Hétre Créte de Coq. Fr.; \ 
the crested, or curled-leaved 
Beech. (The plate of this 
tree in Arb. Brit., Ist edit., 
vol. viii.; and our jig. 1694.) 
— This variety is a mon- 
strosity, with the leaves 
small, and almost sessile, 
and crowded into small 
dense tufts, which occur at 
intervals along the branches. 
The tree never attains a 
large size, as may be ex- 
pected from its deficiency 
in foliage. 
4 F.s. 7 péndula Lodd. Cat. ed. 
1836. Elétre Parasol, Jr. ; 
the weeping Beech.— When 
this variety is grafted stan- 
dard high, it forms a ver 1694. F. 8, cristata. 
singular and highly beautiful object, well deserving a place in 
collections of weeping trees. There is a splendid natural specimen 
in one of the plantations bordering Milton Park, in Northampton- 
shire, of which a plate is given in Ard. Brit., Ist edit., vol. viii. 
