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and cannot, be confused with J. Chinensis albo variegata, 

 which differs in habit, foliage, and method of variegation. 



In addition to this green decumbent form and its two 

 coloured varieties, we are further confused by finding in 

 gardens an entirely different form, or rather a different 

 form and a variety of it, also passing under the name of 

 '* J. Japonica,'' in this case being called J. Japonica 

 aurea ; of this there are actually two varieties, one quite 

 green and the other with its newer foliage a deep bronze- 

 gold. The green variety is rare, and is invariably found 

 under the name of aurea, its owner never being able to 

 account for the fact that it is not golden in colour. These 

 two varieties throw up long plumose arching branches of 

 adult foliage. Juvenile foliage may occur at the base of 

 the plant, but I have never noticed it, and in any case the 

 appearance of this plant is of one having adult foliage only, 

 and it is not the least Hke the other forms before men- 

 tioned either in habit or foliage. 



There are also in cultivation a form making a round 

 umbrella-shaped head of drooping branchlets, bearing 

 both juvenile and adult foliage, the former predominating 

 — this is usually named J. Sinensis procumbens or J. 

 Japonica procumbens ; and an upright narrow pyramidal 

 form, for which see J. Chinensis pyramidalis. 



Our final difficulty in this group of varieties is due to 

 Beissner, in error, making all these forms identical with 

 J. procumbens, Sieb. (syn. : J. Chinensis procumbens, Endl.). 



It is evident, from his description of the first form 

 (/. Japonica, hort.) as a bushy shrub with adult foHage 

 on the upper branches, that he is not describing the true 

 J. procumbens, Sieb., which is a prostrate plant near to 

 J. squumata, having invariably only juvenile (acicular) 

 foliage; he is probably describing the J. Sinensis pro- 

 cumbens referred to above. To the true J. procumbens, 

 Sieb., none of the forms I have mentioned bear the least 

 resemblance, and that name being disposed of, and there 

 being no reason why these forms should be distinguished 



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