26 DWABF AND SLOW-GROWING CONIFERS 



much through near the base. It has made a compact 

 pyramid of thickly crowded ascending branches. Annual 

 growth of branchlets IJ to 2 inches, pubescent, very fine 

 and supple. Leaves from J to f inch; very straight, fine 

 and narrow — widest in middle and tapering to both ends, 

 terminating in a sharp cartilaginous point. Carriere states 

 that dwarf forms are not uncommon in the seed beds. 

 He groups them all together under the name of var. nana, 

 and adds that they usually form roundish, confused, but 

 compact bushes rarely exceeding 3 feet in height. Barbier's 

 plant differs slightly in shape and vigour, but not suffi- 

 ciently to separate it. 



C. Libani, var. brevifolia, J. D. Hook (Journ.Bot., 1880, 31). 

 Syn. : C. brevifolia, Henry. 

 This tree is found in Cyprus, and is considered by 

 some authorities to be distinct enough to be classed as a 

 separate species. Even in its native habitat it must be 

 extremely slow in growth, for Beissner (ii. 329) records 

 old trees of 100 years of age only 30 feet in height. I 

 have seen only small specimens in this country, and they 

 appear to be of extremely slow growth. I have a few in 

 my own garden making irregular bushes of somewhat 

 arching or almost horizontal branches; branches and 

 branchlets much stouter and stiffer than var. Comte de 

 Dijon, and tiny leaves fV to J inch, slightly incurved, 

 disproportionately thick, roundish, uniform width, termin- 

 ating abruptly in a short cartilaginous point. 



C. Libani, var. pendula Sargenti, Hort. 



Syn.: var. pendula, Knight (?) ("Syn. Conif.," 42, 

 1850). 



The pendulous variety described by Knight is, as far as 

 I have been able to ascertain, no longer in cultivation, 

 and the pendulous form, of uncertain origin, named after 

 Professor C. S. Sargent, of the Arnold Arboretum, is 

 apparently the only one now obtainable. This, in my 

 garden, has made an upright stem of about 2J feet in 



