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faith, and it is much planted in the neighborhood of their temples, 

 from the wood of which they are built. It is the favorite tree 

 employed by the Japanese in the production of their dwarf trees. 

 The following are well-marked varieties of this species : 



Variety I. breviramea (Maxim.) Rehder. Charnaecyparis hrevi- 

 ramea Maxim. Charnaecyparis obtusa filicoides Hort. Cupres- 

 sus obtusa filicoides Kent. Retinispora filicoides Gordon. 

 Thuya obtusg, filicoides Masters. 



A variety of dwarf dense habit. The spreading flat branches 

 are crowded with short flat branchlets of about equal length, 

 giving the branches somewhat the appearance of fern-fronds, 

 hence the name. Of this variety there is also a golden yellow 

 form of dwarf habit, known as aurea. 



Variety 2. lycopodioides (Gordon) Carr. Retinispora lycopo- 



dioides Gordon. Retinispora monstrosa Hort. Ctipressus 



obtusa lycopodioides Kent. 



A dwarf form with the stout branchlets short, of irregular 

 length, and crowded on all sides of the branches, especially 

 toward their ends. 



Other varieties of C. obtusa, depending upon habit or color, 

 are : albo-spica, with the branchlet tips whitish ; aurea, of a deep 

 golden yellow, changing to dark green later ; compacta, a low 

 form of compact habit; gracilis aurea, of slender habit and golden 

 yellow foliage; Ketelecrii, of denser habit than the typical form, 

 the deeper green of the foliage contrasting with the light yellow 

 of some of the terminal growths ; Mariesii, with the terminal 

 growths light yellow or creamy white ; nana, a low form^ with 

 deep green branches, and the golden form of this known as owrca; 

 nana filifera, a dwarf form with the tips of the branches elon- 

 gated, the branchlets themselves irregularly arranged and not 

 forming fan-like masses ; pcndiila, with the elongated branchlets 

 of the spreading stout branches drooping; and pygmaea, an ex- 

 ceedingly dwarf form with horizontally spreading branches. 



5. ChamaecyparisLawsoniana (A. Murray) Parlatore. Law- 

 son's Cypress. Port Orford Cypress. Oregon or White 

 Cedar. Ginger Pine 



This tree, in its wild state, attains a height sometimes of 200 

 feet and a trunk diameter of 10-12 feet; in cultivation in the east 



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