34 DWABF AND SLOW-GROWING CONIFERS 



foliage of a bright shining grass-green colour, very glaucous 

 underneath. Leaves scale-like, very minute, yV to | inch, 

 in opposite pairs, not appressed but free, and sticking 

 out. Extraordinarily crowded on the branchlets and 

 overlapping. The whole having a heath-like appearance. 

 Branches crimson-brown, stiff branchlets, very crowded 

 and ascending, green to brown. Sprays 3 to 3J inches 

 long by about 1 inch wide. Leaves straight or curved, 

 mostly pointing forward at angle of about 45 degrees; 

 narrow, terminating in a sharp point ; upper sides concave, 

 with a narrow glaucous stomatic band sunk between 

 raised and enlarged margins; lower side convex, com- 

 pressed, and sharply keeled. A very distinct juvenile 

 form, extremely rare in cultivation. 



C. Lawsoniana, var. Knowefieldensis. 



A low shrub of arching branches and pendulous 

 branchlets. Branchlets very thin and supple, dark 

 brown. Leaves borne in sprays about 2 inches long by 

 1 inch; very thin and fine; minute, scale-like, with tips 

 free; very dark blue-green above, very glaucous beneath. 

 This form was raised in Messrs. Little and Ballantyne's 

 Nurseries in Carlisle. Its foliage, which is of a very 

 pleasing colour, approaches that of var. tamariscifolia, 

 but differs from that variety in colour and also in habit, 

 its branchlet sprays being widespread and regular — not 

 overlapping and twisted. 



C. Lawsoniana, var. juniperoides, Kent (Veitch, "Man. 

 Conif," 1900, 206). 

 Syn. : var. ericoides, Hort (not Kent). 

 There is at Leonardslee, Sussex, in the collection of 

 the late Sir Edmund Loder, a distinct and graceful dwarf 

 form grown as var. ericoides, which is not var. ericoides 

 of Kent. I have also received it from several nurserymen 

 under this name. Its foliage is all adult, differing from that 

 of vars. na7ia and minima only in size, shape, and arrange- 

 ment of its scale tips. In the two first-named varieties, 



