54 DWARF AND 8L0W-0R0WING CONIFERS 



tapering gradually to point; decurrent at base and mu- 

 cronate. Unlike most juvenile forms, its leaves emit 

 the savin-like odour of its type when crushed. 



A regular very close -growing and compact narrowly 

 pyramidal bush, eventually about 4 to 6 feet in height. 

 Branches slender, but stiff and ascending at a narrow 

 angle, with numerous horizontal branchlets which are very 

 slender and compact. Colour grey-green in summer, 

 deep purplish or violet-brown in winter. One of the fixed 

 juvenile forms which occur in nearly all the Thuyas 

 and Cupressus, and which vary only slightly from one 

 another. This form is very slow in growth, and I have 

 only young plants of it. 



There is a glaucous grey-green sport of this, var. 

 ericoides glauca, found in Dresden, and recorded in " Mitt, 

 d. d. d. Ges." (1900), p. 64; Beiss. (ii. 532). 



C. sphseroidea, var. Andelyensis, Carr. (2nd ed., 123, 1867). 

 Syn.: C. leptoclada, Hochst. (Nadl., 257, 1865). 

 Retinospora leptoclada, Gord. (not Zucc). 



Leaves of two kinds, adult predominating. Juvenile 

 in whorls of threes. Spreading, curved, linear, and flat; 

 arranged radially, about J inch long. Adult foliage 

 scale-like and imbricated in opposite pairs; those on 

 margin keeled, overlapping and sometimes incurved. 

 Those along the centre are flat with a well-defined resin 

 pit in the middle. Branches ascending; branchlets very 

 crowded, especially towards their tops — making a fan- 

 shaped head of flat glaucous foliage terminating in con- 

 spicuous red bands. 



A dense compact pyramid eventually 3 to 6 feet in 

 height, furnished with branches right down to the ground. 



Carriere (ii. 124) states that this form of C. sphceroidea 

 originated as a seedling in the nursery of Couchois in 

 Andeleys (Eure), France, in 1850. It was raised from 

 seed of C. sphceroidea, and the raiser kept it a long time 

 unnamed, until he showed it at the Paris Exhibition of 



