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Leaves of 2 forms, the juvenile spreading ones soon disappear- 

 ing. Branches erect and much-divided, the divisions forming 

 dense corymbiform masses. It rarely attains a height of 10 feet. 



Variety 2. ericoides (Carr.) Nash. CJiamaecyparis ericoidcs 

 Carr. Chamaecyparis sphaeroidea ericoides Beissn. & Hochst. 

 Retinispora ericoides Zucc. 



A dense low shrub of cylindric habit, with erect branches. 

 Leaves spreading, linear-lanceolate, when mature usually less 

 than yi in. long, flat, gray-green, becoming of a reddish brown 

 or violet color in winter, with 2 broad white lines on the lower 

 surface. 



Other varieties of C. thyoides are as follows : glaiica, with 

 bluish foliage ; aitrea, foliage golden ; atrovirens, foliage deep 

 green ; pyramidata and fastigiata, of strict erect habit ; pciidula, 

 with weeping branches ; nana, and pygmaea, both dwarf forms ; 

 and varicgata, a form with slender branches partly colored 

 yellow. 



2. Chamaecyparis pisifera S. & Z. Sawara Cypress. Pea- 

 fruited Retinispora or Japanese Cedar 

 Retinispora pisifera S. & Z. Cupressus pisifera Koch. Thuya 

 pisifera Masters. 



A tree, attaining in its native country a height of about 100 

 feet, with widely spreading branches, the flattened branchlets 

 arranged in a 2-ranked manner; in cultivation a smaller tree of 

 ovate outline. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, pointed, thick, fleshy, 

 appressed or ascending (flat and widely spreading in some of the 

 forms with juvenile foliage), i"-2" long; staminate flowers ob- 

 tuse, cylindric, consisting of 8-10 stamens ; cones nearly globular, 

 less than 4" in diameter, of 10-12 scales which have a very small 

 point in the slightly depressed apex. 



A native of Japan, where it is plentiful in forests and around 

 the grounds of the temples. The following are marked horti- 

 cultural varieties : 



Leaves convex or keeled on the green back. 



Branches with slender elongated pendulous tips, the leaves and branch- 

 lets scattered, the former appressed or nearly so. Var. i. filifcra. 



Branches spreading, but not pendulous, the leaves spreading decidedly 

 at the tips. Var. 2. phiinosa. 



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