48 DWABF AND SLOW-GBOWING C0NIFEB8 



— vabT.filifera nana, Hesse ("Mitt. d. d. d. Ges.," 1904, 

 145), a green thick bushy form which at twenty-five years 

 of age was 70 cm. high by 1 metre broad. 



C. pisifera, var. squarrosa, Beiss. and Hochst. (Beiss., 

 ii. 566). 

 Syn. : C. squarrosa, Sieb. and Zucc. ex Endl. (" Syn. 

 Conif.," 1847). 

 C. squarrosa leptoclada, Endl. (" Syn. Conif.," 



65). 

 G. sqy/irrosa Veitchei, Hort. 

 Retinospora squarrosa , Sieb. and Zucc. (" Fl. 



Jap.," ii. 1842). 

 R. squarrosa glauca, Hort. 

 R. squarrosa leptoclada, Sieb.,Gord. (" Pine- 



tum," 297). 

 R. leptoclada, Zucc. ex Gordon (" Pinetum," 

 1862) (not Hort.). 

 This is a fixed juvenile form of C. pisifera introduced by 

 Veitch from Japan in 1861, and forms a bushy pyramidal 

 plant, with ascending branches and branchlets, with 

 pendulous tips covered with glaucous silvery-green awl- 

 shaped foliage. Its habit is very dense, and its branches 

 and branchlets very crowded and irregular. Leaves about 

 J inch long, in opposite pairs, narrow and thin; slightly 

 keeled below, nearly flat above; very glaucous below — 

 two narrow white bands above between wide green margins 

 and separated almost their entire length by a broad green 

 midrib, tapering gradually to a long point which is 

 frequently incurved. The branchlet sprays are about 

 3 inches long by 2 inches across, and are pointing forward 

 at an angle of about 45 degrees. 



This distinct form, much grown in gardens, grows fairly 

 strong, and forms a good-sized bush ; it is apt to get bare 

 and ragged, and must be occasionally cHpped or cut into 

 shape. 



Vars. squarrosa sulphur ea, argentea, and albo spica 

 differ only in the colour of their young foliage, which is 

 light yellow, silvery, or white-tipped. 



