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the name of var. Wisselii; but had been described con- 

 siderably earlier by Beissner as var. conica. 



C. Lawsoniana, var. Milfordensis. 



A slow-growing form, the dwarf est of the " blue " forms 

 — almost as blue as var. " Tromphe de Boskoop,'' making 

 a narrow pjrramidal bush, of close-growing ascending 

 branches. The secondary branchlets are about 5 inches 

 long by 2 J inches wide, and are very regular; fine and 

 shaped like a fern frond. My best plant is about 4 feet 

 by 2 feet through. 



C. Lawsoniana, var. squarrosa, Mayr (Beiss., ii. 543). 



Beissner ex Mayr ("Fremdl. Wald.," 1906, p. 406) 

 records this juvenile form as a light green pyramid covered 

 with fine small needle-like foliage, and states that it is not 

 now in cultivation ; but I received some years ago a plant of 

 uncertain origin under the name of G. Lawsoniana 

 squarrosa nana aurea, which may possibly be a form of 

 C. Lawsoniana, but in absence of any information as to its 

 origin, I hesitate to identify it with that species. 



I have compared it with seedlings of G. Lawsoniana, 

 and its foliage seems identical with theirs in all respects. 

 Branches and branchlets very thin, fine and crowded, and 

 ascending at a narrow angle. Annual growth J inch to 

 IJ inches. Leaves in threes or fours set very close 

 together; some pointing up with their tips slightly 

 incurved, others pointing out, tapering to a long point 

 about 4 mm. long by 1 mm. broad; under side slightly 

 convex with almost imperceptible keel ; upper side nearly 

 flat. A small, fairly stiff, upright, rather flat-topped 

 bush with very crowded branchlets, of a golden colour 

 which it retains unchanged in winter. 



C. Lawsoniana, var. ericoides, Kent ex Veitch {" Man. 

 Conif.," 1900, 206). 



A juvenile form, occasionally with awl-shaped foliage 

 borne in threes, but usually with intermediate scale-like 



