46 DWABF AND SLOW-GROWING CONIFERS 



One, var. Trouhetzlcoyana, in the garden of Prince 

 Troubetzkoy on Lago Maggiore, seems intermediate 

 between var. lycopodioides and the type. 



Others mentioned by Beissner (ii. 561) as having been 

 introduced into Germany from Japan by Bohmer are 

 named: vars. Rashahiba, Kanaamihiba, Shamohiba, 

 Coralliformis, aurea. From their descriptions all these 

 appear to be variations of var. lycopodioides, but I have not 

 seen any of them except var. aurea, which was sent to 

 me by an English nursery as var. lycopodioides (type). 

 At Curragh Grange, Co. Kildare, are several old specimens 

 of the type, about 4 feet high. 



C. obtusa, var. filicoides, Kegel ("Russ. Dendr.," ed. 2, 



27, 1883). 



Syn. : Retinispora obtusa filicoides, Gord. (" Pinetum," 

 863). 

 R. filicoides, Veitch. 

 R. Nobleana, Hort. 



Branches long, narrow, fiat; regularly and thickly 

 furnished on both sides with very short compound 

 branchlets of same size all along their whole length. 

 Branchlets short, quadrangular; deep green above, 

 glaucous beneath. Leaves small, oval, curled, thick, 

 obtuse, keeled on back; imbricated in four rows; very 

 deep glossy green. 



Introduced from Japan by J. G. Veitch in 1861, and now 

 in general cultivation. Grows fairly big in time, but 

 grows slowly and forms a rather flat, crowded, fern-like 

 bush, with arching branches. 



Beissner (ii. 558) records two varieties of this which I 

 have not seen: vsbr. filicoides aurea ("Mitt. d. d. d. Ges.,'*' 

 1906, 156) — a golden foliaged form; and var. aono- 

 kujahuhiba, K. Onum (in same, p. 68) — a form with longer ^ 

 slenderer branches bearing rather short (from 1 to 3 cm. 

 long) crowded monstrous side branchlets, giving the 

 branches the appearance of arching fern fronds. 



