22 DWABF AND SLOW-GEOWINQ CONIFEES 



Buds about J inch. Light brown, resinous. Branchlets 

 glabrous or occasional fine scattered pubescence, thin. 

 Annual growth If to 2 J inches. Leaves very thin and 

 fine, about 1 inch by barely 1 mm. wide; curved, point- 

 ing forward ; under side nearly bare, very crowded above. 

 Grey-green. Stomatic bands not nearly so strongly 

 marked as type or var. globular is. 



A. lasiocarpa, var. Beissneri, Hesse ("Mitt. d. d. d. Ges.," 

 1902, 46). 

 A curious distorted form found by Hesse of Weener, 

 with sickle-shaped leaves curled and twisted round the 

 distorted branchlets. I have seen no healthy specimens ; 

 the few I have seen were suffering from disease, and their 

 swollen and gouty branches added to the extraordinary 

 appearance of the plants. They were like stunted bushes 

 from a Rackham drawing. I have one specimen — a small 

 irregular bush with few branches — about 2 feet high. 



A. lasiocarpa, var. compacta (not Rehd). 



Syn. : A. subalpina,Y8iT. compacta, Beiss. (ex "Mitt, 

 d. d. d. Ges.," 1900, 64). 



A densely branched, fairly regular glaucous blue 

 globular form. Beissner records one example raised by 

 Herr Ordnung at Eisenberg in 1898, which at eight years 

 of age was a globular bush 35 inches high; and another 

 3 feet in diameter. 



Buds about J inch long, cream - brown, resinous. 

 Branchlets stout, stiff, and short. Annual growth about 

 1 J to 2 inches. Pubescent. Leaves J to f inch, imperfectly 

 radial; very crowded on top, few beneath; thick, stiff, 

 straight, or slightly curved, rather over 1 mm. wide; 

 uniform in width, ending in a round blunt apex. Glaucous 

 blue-green. Leaves point out and slightly forward. 



A. Nordmanniana, Spach. 



Comes from Asia Minor and the Caucasus, where it 

 reaches 200 feet in height. It was introduced about 1850. 



