clone off. longifolia" Finally, idem., Amer. Hort. Mag. 49(4)199. 1970, 

 as a cultivar, without mention of syn. of her earlier interpretations. = 

 LONGIFOLIA, f. longifolia in part. 

 /. longifolia (Goldring) Rehder (A. Rehder, Mitt. Deut. Dendr. Gesel. 

 1908(17): 161. 1908.) - the following quotation was translated from 

 German: 



lvs. narrow elliptic to lanceolate, pointed and mucronate tipped, 

 sharply serrate, 1.3-3.5 cm long. According to the somewhat 

 uncertain description in Garden, [Goldring (Garden 1 20: 1 29. 1 887)] , 

 var. longifolia Goldring can be separated from the type [typical 

 expression of /. crenata] by its narrower and longer lvs. I also 

 include [in f. longifolia] a Japanese specimen Faurie 6894 and 

 specimens at Kew like the typical cultivation form, having very 

 small lvs. I saw a Japanese specimen of i. longifolia from Faurie 's 

 No. 6894. 1 place here those specimens of Kew #1 like the typical 

 cultivated form, having very small lvs. scarcely 2.5 cm. long, with 

 the Japanese forms that are up to 3.5 cm. long. 

 Obviously, Rehder was not naming a single clone, which we would call 

 a cultivar; he was grouping a particular range of leaf lengths of taxa that 

 can be considered as a valid botanical forma. Since Rehder included 

 elements of wild origin in his forma, this further vindicates his forma at 

 botanical rank. From our observations of numerous populations of open- 

 pollinated seedling populations, we found that many named cultivars, 

 and some somatic mutations, such as HIGH LIGHT, indicate that the 

 narrow, pointed, sharply serrated leaf described by Rehder may occur 

 randomly and in expressions fully graduated from narrowly elliptic to 

 broadly lanceolate. Similar leaf patterns also occur randomly in wild 

 populations. S.-y. Hu (1957) made three confusing interpretations of this 

 name (see var. longifolia in this checklist). = longifolia Goldring in part. 

 LONGIFOLIA (W. Goldring, Garden (London) 31:19. 1887, as var. 

 longifolia) - lvs. longer and narrower than type; descr. from cult. 

 A. Rehder, Mitt. Deut. Dendr. Gesel. 1908(17): 161. 1908 - [his] 

 f. longifolia was based in part on var. longifolia Goldring but included 

 other elements. A. Rehder, in Bailey's Standard Cyclopedia Hort. 

 2:1640. 1915, listed var. longifolia Hort. - lvs. elliptic-oblong to 

 lanceolate. A. Rehder, Man. Cult. Trees & Shrubs, 1st ed., p. 545. 1927, 

 and idem, 2d ed., p. 551. 1940 - cited var. longifolia Goldring. A. 

 Rehder, Biblio. Trees & Shrubs, p. 402. 1949 - cited f. longifolia 

 (Goldring) Rehder, which he accepted as a valid botanical forma. 

 However this change of rank from var. to forma does not prevent 

 Goldring 's plant from being recognized as a cultivar. G. Kriissmann, 

 Handb. Laub., 1st ed., Fascicle Pub., 2:23. Dec. 1960, as cv. - lvs. 

 narrowly lanceolate, 3-5 cm long, 0.9 cm wide; twigs dark reddish 

 brown. ? Male. S.-y. Hu made various interpretations (see var. longifolia 

 in this checklist) but her last was as a cultivar. According to the literature 



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