MACROPHYLLA of Moon, but not to MACROPHYLLA of Conder or 

 Lindley. Illegitimate, since the name /. aquifolium MACROPHYLLA 



has priority. 



MAGDA (Cartwright Nurs., Collierville, Tennessee, advert, in Amer. 

 Nurseryman 1 19(2):25. 1964, without descr.). Sdlg. orig., named, and 

 introd. late 1950's by Cartwright Nurs., Collierville, Tennessee; dense 

 upright rounded; lvs. dark green broadly elliptic to obovate; male. The 

 authors are the first to legitimately publish the name MAGDA by 

 providing a description. 



var. major (G. Nicholson, Kew Hand-List Trees & Shrubs 1:61. 1894, 

 without descr.). L. Spaeth, Baumschule, Berlin, Germany, cat. p. 90. 

 1901 - larger lvs. than var. fortune */. W. Dallimore, Kew Hand-List 

 Trees & Shrubs, 2d ed., p. 89. 1902, without descr. - syn. with 

 I.fortunei Hort., not l.fortunei Lindley. Idem, Holly Yew & Box, 

 p. 121. 1908 - very wide lvs.; has been called I.fortunei; photo of major 

 in fig. 6 in Dallimore does not represent major as described on p. 121; 

 probably the wrong plant was photographed. W.J. Bean, Trees & 

 Shrubs Hardy Brit. Isles., 1st ed., 1:645. 1914, and 7th ed., 2:645. 1951 



- occasionally to 20 ft; lvs. 1/2"- 1 1/2" long, l/4"-5/8" wide, oval, box- 

 like, minutely round toothed; fr. black; regarded by some as Thunberg's 

 type of the species; with syn. of/, elliptica Hort. Idem, Trees & Shrubs 

 Hardy Brit. Isles, 8th ed., 2:440. 1973 - as syn. under f. latifolia 

 (Goldring) Rehder with the identical description as given for var. major 

 in 1st and 7th eds., with only var. latifolia Goldring listed as a syn. An 

 herbarium collection labeled MAJOR in the National Arboretum and 

 Arnold Arboretum Herbaria is noted as "cult. Kew No. 98, rec. 1908 

 from Veitch, coll. by Bean." These specimens have round, minutely 

 spinulose lvs. lacking crenation and have female flowers. A. Hill, Kew 

 Hand-List Trees & Shrubs, 3d ed., p. 40. 1924, without descr. - with 

 I.fortunei Hort. in syn. A. Rehder, Man. Cult. Trees & Shrubs, 1st ed., 

 p. 544. 1927 and idem, 2d ed., Man. Cult. Trees & Shrubs, p. 550. 1940 



- lvs. elliptic or obovate to oblong; in syn. to var. latifolia Goldring. 



B. Boom, Nederl. Dendr., 3d ed., p. 310. 1949, without descr. - syn. of 

 var. latifolia Goldring and with /. elliptica Hort.; also a syn. of var. 

 latifolia; idem, 2d ed., Nederl. Dendr.; idem, 4th ed.; idem, 3d ed.; and 

 idem, 5th ed. - [descr. of LATIFOLIA] lvs. to 4 cm long, oval but 

 widest above the middle; introd. 1865 by Siebold from Japan; with var. 

 major as a syn. of LATIFOLIA and with var. latifolia Goldring and var. 

 elliptica Hort. also as syn. of LATIFOLIA. A. Rehder, Biblio. Trees & 

 Shrubs, p. 412. 1949, as var. major Nicholson, without descr. - syn. of 

 f. latifolia (Goldring) Rehder; with var. latifolia Goldring, var. 

 rotundifolia Maximowicz, /. elliptica Hort., and I.fortunei Hort. also as 

 syn. of f. latifolia. P. Synge in Chittenden, Royal Hort. Soc. Diet. Gdn. 

 2d ed., 2:1045. 1956 - lvs. larger than typical; fr. 1/4" wide. D. Wyman, 

 Arnoldia 20(7):42. 1960 - lvs. large, 1 1/2" long, l/2"-5/8" wide, 



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