134 DWAEF AND 8L0W-GE0WING CONIFERS 



A round, flat-topped, table-like bush, bearing minute 

 cones while quite small. 



Beissner (p. 291) mentions a form — P. tahulceformis 

 (Carr. " Conif.," 2nd ed., 510), a dwarfish bushy tree, 

 with thick crowded branchlets in whorls, shiny yellow 

 bark, and stiff thick leaves 4 inches long, in twos, rarely 

 in threes. The branches short and widespreading, making 

 a broad table-hke bush. 



He goes on to state that this plant has been designated 

 a monstrous form of P. densi flora. From seed of it intro- 

 duced into England from China about 1862, normal 

 P. densiflora is said to have resulted. 



Siebold has described a dwarf form of his P. Massoniana 

 (P. Thunhergi, Pari.) as having branches standing out 

 horizontally. Beissner suggests that this plant of Sie- 

 bold' s might possibly be the P. tahulceformis in question. 



This form cannot be identical with var. umhraculifera , 

 nor can it be var. Bandaisho of Japanese gardens, which is 

 described as similar to var. Tanyosho (umhraculifera), but 

 with even shorter needles. 



P. excelsa, Wall., var. nana, R. Smith ('' PL Fir Tribe," 35, 



1876). 



A plant under this name was offered in old catalogues 

 of R. Smith of Worcester and Lawson Company of Edin- 

 burgh, dated 1876. I can find no description of it. 



P. laricio, Poir. 



Syn. : P. nigra, Arnold. 



The Corsican pine is found distributed throughout 

 Southern Europe and Asia Minor, and exceeds 100 feet 

 in height. 



P. laricio, var. Balcanica, Velenowsky ("Fl. Bulg.," Sup. 1). 



Beissner (ii. 413) states that Professor Adamovic found 

 this in the Krummholz region — a stunted form with 

 shorter and more crowded leaves. 



