112 DWAEF AND SLOW-GROWING CONIFERS 



Branches. — Either flat on the ground or slightly ascend- 

 ing and arching at the tips. 



Branchhts. — Very fine and flexible white-yellow to 

 brown; annual growth about 1 inch; pendulous. 



Leaves. — Mostly arranged radially and very crowded; 

 those below mostly pointing forward; those at sides and 

 above pointing out and forward; very fine, thin and 

 straight, tapering gradually from base to tip ; about three 

 stomatic Hnes on each side. 



A small low bush of irregular growth ; some branches flat 

 on the ground, others rising sUghtly and then decurving. 



P. excelsa, var. prostrata (not Schneider). 



Buds. — Globose; hght brown; borne in irregular clumps 

 both on ends and sides of branchlets, and varying in size. 



Branchlets. — Light orange; stout but very fliexible. 

 Annual growth from I inch to 3 inches, stoutness of branch- 

 lets varpng in proportion to their length. Branchlets in 

 irregular whorls and very crowded into flattened, almost 

 horizontal planes. 



Leaves. — Irregular in size, shape, and direction, from 

 t\ inch and thin to f inch and thick, roundish, with about 

 four stomatic lines on each side. 



An absolutely prostrate form of which I have only a 

 small plant, which I obtained from HiUier's Nursery at 

 Winchester. I do not know its origin. It came to me 

 as var. procuinbens, but it is not var. procumbens, Carr. 



P. excelsa, var. tabuliformis, Carr. (" Product, des 

 Yarietes," 52). 



Buds. — Small — r^ inch; yeUow-brown. 



Branches. — Shghtly decurving and almost prostrate. 



Branchlets. — Very thin and flexible, pointing forward at 

 angle of about 40 degrees, flat and aU in one horizontal 

 plane; yeUow-brown, becoming grey-brown. Sparse, 

 not crowded. 



Leaves. — Pectinately arranged; bottoms of branchlet 

 bare; lower leaves pointing out and slightly forward; 



