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a flat-topped, compact bush with fan-shaped golden- 

 yellow foliage, but Beissner records an old specimen at 

 Boskoop, Holland, which has grown into a small columnar 

 bush. 



C. obtusa, var. nana albo-variegata, Beiss. (ii. 563). 

 Syn. : var. Mariesi (?), Hort. 

 Beissner separates this from var. Mariesi of gardens, but 

 any plants I have seen or acquired under these names seem 

 identical, and make slow-growing conical or pyramidal 

 bushes with foliage similar to var. nana, whitish in summer 

 and yellow-green in winter. A variety at Glasnevin, 

 var. argentea of Veitch, seems rather a better colour. 

 Branchlet sprays about 3 by 2 J inches. A speci- 

 men I got under the name of var. Mariesi is now 

 3 by 3 feet. 



C. obtusa, var. pygmsea aureo-variegata, Beiss. (ii. 564). 



Stated by Beissner to be a variegated form of var. 

 pygmcea. I have never seen it. 



All these forms of G. obtusa, with the exception of var. 

 pygmcea, vary very little in colour and in the size of their 

 branchlets and foliage, but they are fairly distinct in 

 habit. Var. pygmcea differs from the others in colour as 

 well as in habit. 



C. obtusa, var. ericoides, Bohmer (in Catalogue of 1900). 



Syn.: Juniperus Sanderi (Gard. Ghron., 1899, i. 287). 

 Retinispora Sanderi, Sanders {Gard. Ghron., 

 1903. Suppl. April 25). 



A fixed juvenile form; stouter and stiff er than any of 

 the juvenile forms of Thuya and G. sphceroidea and G. 

 Nutkcensis recorded. Branchlets at right angles or 

 ascending, disproportionately stout. Annual growth 

 about I inch. Leaves in threes or twos, set close to- 

 gether; short — about | inch — and stumpy, pointing 

 out and slightly forward; apex rounded and sometimes 



