MONMOUTH (Bobbink Nurs., Freehold, New Jersey, cat. p. 13. sp. 1979) 

 - compact, spreading, slow growing; hardy. May have orig. many years 

 before 1979. = MAMMOUTH. 



MORRIS DWARF (Tingle Nurs., Pittsville, Maryland, cat. p. 20. fall 

 1956-sp. 1957) - very dwarf; lvs. small; tested at Tingle Nurs. for several 

 years. S.-y. Hu, Nat'l Hort. Mag. 36(1 ):64. 1957 - clone of/, crenata 

 f. microphylla; lvs. small, apex generally acute, sometimes obtuse. Orig. 

 Morris Nurs., West Chester, Pennsylvania, before 1953. Male. 



MORRISON (H. Hopkins, Holly Soc. Amer. Let. 75; 12. 1983, without 

 descr.) - holly collection at Sandhills Community College, Southern 

 Pines, North Carolina. 



MOUNT AMAGI (Arnold Teese & Sons, Yamina Rare Plants, 25 Moores 

 Road, Monbulk, Victoria 3793, Australia, retail price list, p. 6. January 

 1988, as "Mt. Amagi form," without descr.). Orig. from seed coll. in the 

 wild by Arnold Teese on Mount Amagi, Honshu, Japan. Grown, sel., and 

 named by Arnold Teese. Upright, very dense, and compact; lvs. dark 

 green, oval, 7.0-12.7 mm long, 3.6-4.8 mm wide, bases cuneate to 

 obtuse, apices obtuse with minute acumens, margins crenate on upper 

 1/2; petioles 0.8-1.6 mm long; female. Descr. of the original plant was 

 provided by Fred Galle during an autumn 1988 tour of Australia. By 

 correcting the orthography and providing a descr., the authors are the 

 first to legitimately publish the name MOUNT AMAGI. 



MOUNT HALLA New name. Sel. from the wild on Mount Halla, Cheju 

 Island, Republic of Korea about 1977 by C. Miller; named and introd. by 

 C. Miller. This selection has been distributed as HALLA and MT. 

 HALLA. Moderate growth rate, exceptionally wide-angle branching; 

 one-year-old branchlets are very thick, rigid, and uniquely taper to a 

 spurlike tip; lvs. very small, lanceolate; female. By providing a descr., 

 the authors are the first to legitimately publish the name MOUNT 

 HALLA. = HALLA, MT. HALLA. 



MR. C (Cartwright Nurs., Collierville, Tennessee, advert, in Amer. 

 Nurseryman 130(4);34. 1969) - compact, low, horizontal grower; lvs. 

 dark green. Male. 



MUFFIN (G. Eisenbeiss and T. Dudley, Proc. 54th Meet. Holly Soc. 

 Amer. p. 13. 1977) - low, mound shape with irregular horizontal growth, 

 slow growing; branchlets with very short internodes; lvs. narrow, oblong, 

 convex, glossy; male; sel. by Polly Hill from seed rec. from Japan 1965; 

 named and introd. by Polly Hill; Holly Soc. Amer. Reg. No. 7-77 by 

 Polly Hill. 



var. mutchagara (Makino) Ohwi (J. Ohwi, Fl. Jap., p. 733. 1953; idem, 

 Bull. Sci. Mus. Tokyo. 30:78. 1953, new combination from Makino's 

 rank of species, without descr.). J. Ohwi, Fl. Jap., English ed., p. 600. 

 1965 - larger shrub than /. crenata, angled branches; lvs. thinner, broadly 

 lanceolate to obovate-oblong, base cuneate; native of Kyushu and 

 Yakushima, and Ryukyu Isles, Japan, Formosa. J. Creech, USDA Pit. 



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