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it is a small tree of dense conical habit. The branches are spread- 

 ing, usually drooping at the end. and furnished with flattened 

 branchlets arranged in a frond-like manner ; leaves appressed, 

 obtuse, or sometimes acutish, with a distinct gland on the back, 

 commonly less than i" long, or on vigorous branchlets or on 

 young plants often longer and spreading at the apex ; staminate 

 flowers oblong, red, of about 1.2 stamens ; ctDnes reddish browH 

 and usually glaucous, about 5" in diameter, and composed of 

 8-10 scales, each tipped with a short projection, with 2-4 seeds 

 under each scale. - 



This beautiful conifer occurs on sandy ridges along the coast 

 or on mountain sides in southwestern Oregon and northern Cali- 

 fornia. It is extremely variable, many forms having originated 

 in cultivation, depending upon peculiarities in habit or in the 

 color of the foliage. Some of the best of these are the follow- 

 ing: albo-spica, of slender habit and with the tips of the branches 

 creamy white; AJiimi, hardier than the type, with glaucous foli- 

 age of a metallic hue, and a columnar habit; compacfa, of dense 

 dwarf habit and glaucous young growths ; argentea, the foliage 

 almost silvery and the habit slender ; erccta, a dense fastigiate 

 form of pyramidal shape, and with the lateral branches very 

 short — there is a form of this with bright green foliage known 

 as viridis, and another with glaucous foliage known as glauca; 

 filiformis, of a dwarf globose habit and with elongated branches 

 with few short lateral branchlets ; liitca, compact in habit and 

 with the young growths of a clear yellow ;;m;/a, of dwarf globular 

 habit. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY 



June 29, 1912 



A meeting of the society was held on Saturday, June 29, 191 2, 

 in the Museum building. New York Botanical Garden, at 3 150 

 P. M., Mr. Pierson presiding. The exhibition accompanying 

 this meeting was held in the same building, continuing also on 

 Sunday. 



The minutes of the meeting of June 8, 1912, were read and 

 approved. 



The following person, having been approved by the Council and 



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