66 DWAEF AND SLOW-OEOWING CONIFERS 



C. Japonica, var. compacta, Beiss. (ii. 482). 



An ornamental densely branched dwarf form of compact 

 conical growth, reaching about 3 feet in height; branchlets 

 crowded and blue-green, the needles being short and 

 stout. I have not seen it. 



C. Japonica, var. nana, Knight (" Syn. Conif.," 22). 

 Syn. : C. nana, Lindl. and Gord. 



C. Japonica pygmcea, H. B. ex Knight. 

 Fi-sugi or Birodo-sugi (Jap.). 



A slow -growing, very irregular dwarf form, making a 

 bush 2 to 3 feet high and wider than high. Branches, 

 branchlets, and leaves short, crowded and stiff, and here 

 and there branchlets surmounted with congested branch- 

 lets like cockscombs. Branchlets twisted or erect. Leaves 

 appressed with points free and recurved, free points 

 1^ to J inch. Annual growth of branchlets is irregular, 

 from tV inch to 6 inches. My best specimen is 2 feet 

 6 inches by 3 feet through. 



C. Japonica, var. nana albo-spicata. 



This does not seem to be a variegated form of var. nana 

 — at least, I have never seen it bearing the congested 

 branch heads of that variety. On the contrary, it forms 

 as a rule a small, not very crowded, but compact conical 

 bush, branches and branchlets ascending, some of the 

 latter tipped with white. 



C. Japonica, var. Viminalis, Hort. 



Syn.: var. lycopodiformis , Beiss. (ii. 483); 

 var. Selaginoides, Hort. 

 ? var. Virgata, Mayr. 



A very curious form, sending out long slender snake -like 

 branches with few, or no, side branchlets. The branches 

 grow on yearly from the terminal bud and retain their 

 foliage. The occasional side branches are usually also 

 single and short, but at times are crowded with a whorl 

 of five or six smaller branchlets. Branches very irregular 



