124 DWAEF AND SLOW-GROWING CONIFERS 



Moulins, France. There is a specimen in Glasnevin about 

 8 feet in height. I have one about 4 feet 6 inches by 

 3 feet. 



P. nigra, var. ericoides. Bean (" Trees and Shrubs," 

 i. 160). 



Buds. — Minute, ovoid, crimson-brown; terminal bud 

 girt with a ring of almost imperceptible scales from which 

 spring subulate points of varying length. 



Branchhts. — Very thin and flexible; pale crimson- 

 brown, covered with not very dense minute pubescence; 

 annual growth 1 inch to 1 J inches. 



Leaves. — Arranged as in P. excelsa; very thin and heath- 

 like; dark blue-green; J to | inch; incurved; shghtly 

 twisted, with one stomatic line on two sides and three on 

 the other two. 



According to Bean, this makes a rounded bush, and has 

 been known in gardens for fifty years, and grows extremely 

 slowly. 



P. nigra, var. pendula variegata. 



Buds, branches, and branchlets similar to the type, but 

 from one-thu'd to one-half smaller. 



Branches pendulous. Branchlets drooping. 



Leaves about normal in size, but densely crowded, 

 and arranged either radially or semi-radially and mostly 

 pointing directly forward. Colour glaucous blue-green, 

 suffused with gold. Far more attractive than vars. aurea 

 or Finedonensis of P. excelsa. 



This form, with me, tends to make a low bush of 

 weeping or pendulous branches. I know nothing of its 

 origin. I bought it from a nursery where it was grown 

 as P. excelsa. 



P. nigra, var. fastigiata, Carr. (" Conif.," ii. 324, 1867). 

 Syn. : var. pumila, Knight ex Gord. (" Pinetum," 8). 

 P. excelsa, var. dumettorum, Hort (in error). 

 Buds. — Typical, with long subulate points, but black- 

 crimson in colour and resinous; yV ^o i inch. 



