128 DWABF AND SLOW-OBOWINO CONIFERS 



Grange, Co. Kildare, is a prostrate mat 46 inches in 

 diameter — and differing from var. " Kosteri " only in 

 habit. 



Beissner (ii. 280) states that this was found in the 

 Botanic Garden at Hamburg. 



P. pungens, var. Hunnewelliana. 



Buds. — About yV inch; ovoid; white-brown. Scale 

 tips rounded and refiexed. Terminal bud girt with pointed 

 keeled scales. 



Branches. — Supple and ascending. 



Branchlets. — Thin and supple, set at a very narrow 

 angle to branches or in crowded whorls at branch tips. 

 Glabrous, pale whitey-brown. Annual growth 1 inch to 

 3 inches. 



Leaves. — Imperfectly radial, thicker on upper side. 

 Mostly incurved soft, flexible, thin and narrow, tapering 

 to a sharp point. Much thinner, and softer than those of 

 var. compacta, and set on the branchlets at a wider angle. 

 I to J inch long ; pale sea-green ; about five stomatic Hnes 

 on each side. 



This plant was found among a large batch of seedlings 

 of P. Engelmanni raised in the Framingham Nurseries, 

 Mass., from seed collected in Colorado, and was suppHed 

 to the Wellesley Pinetum as a dwarf form of P. Engelmanni. 

 It is obviously not a form of that spruce, and its parentage 

 was for some time in doubt, but a close examination of 

 it has shown it to possess so many points in common with 

 P. pungens that one is justified in considering it a dwarf 

 form of that species. Since Mr. Hunnewell obtained it, 

 it has made a dense pyramidal bush about 4 feet 6 inches 

 by as much through. It is distinct from the Arnold 

 Arboretum form, var. compacta, not only in habit, but 

 also in size, colour, and texture of its foHage. 



Among the many new Chinese spruces raised from seed 

 at Glasnevin Botanic Gardens, I selected some which 



