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C. pisifera, var. squarrosa dumosa, Beiss. (ii. 568). 



A more compact and much slower-growing form of 

 extremely dense growth, sometimes broadly pyramidal, 

 but more often globular or upright with a flattish top. 

 I have only a small plant of this form which so far has 

 made a small upright bush about 10 inches high. 



C. pisifera, var. squarrosa intermedia. 



Syn. : var. squarrosa pygmoea, Hort. 



A most curious form of unknown origin, bearing two 

 types of foliage — juvenile and intermediate. Sometimes 

 the plant remains a very low round or flat-topped bush, 

 in which case its foliage is nearly exclusively juvenile. 

 At other times it sends up a central leading shoot, in 

 which case it becomes cupola-shaped, the lower portion 

 bearing juvenile foliage and the spire bearing intermediate 

 foliage very similar to that of var. squarrosa (type). 



The juvenile foliage is densely crowded in whorls of 

 threes, mostly pointing out at a fairly wide angle, but some- 

 times pointing up with tips inclined to incurve. Length 

 tV to J inch, pale grass-green; thin but not narrow, 

 tapering abruptly to a narrow point. 



The intermediate foliage is smaller — about f inch — 

 equally densely crowded, but borne in opposite pairs, 

 not in threes, all pointing forward at a narrow angle to 

 the branchlet, and tips of leaves inclined to incurve. 



I have seen no very old plants of this form, nor can 

 I trace any; but since an average spray is only about 

 J inch in length, it is evidently extremely slow-glowing. 



C. pisifera (?), var. squarrosa minima. 



Leaves in whorls of threes or in twos, length of free 

 part To to tV inch, recurving at right angles to branchlet, 

 gradually tapering to a point; leaves not very thin; 

 glaucous green. Upper side two slightly sunk white 

 bands, separated from base to apex by broad green mid- 

 rib; margins wide and dark green. Under side two 



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