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Branchlets. — Annual growth 1 inch to 2 inches; glabrous, 

 with distinct pubescence at base of leaf-sheath; red- 

 brown; very crowded. 



Leaves. — In fives — about 3| inches long; very narrow, 

 thin, flexible, drooping and fine; margin serrulate; sharp- 

 pointed; light green; leaf-sheath about J inch, deciduous. 

 Leaves grow in dense, drooping tufts, and occasionally at 

 the summit of a tuft some leaves appear barely half the 

 length of the others. 



This is a distinct and very pretty form, making a vase- 

 shaped bush with a round absolutely umbrella- shaj)ed 

 head of crowded slender branchlets. My best specimen 

 is about 5 feet high by 4 feet through. 



It is readily distinguishable from var. radiata by its 

 shape, the colour of its leaves, and especially by their 

 arrangement. The leaves in the tufts of var. nana stick 

 out in all directions like a dry mop-head. The tufts 

 of var. umhraculifera all droop Uke a wet mop-head. 



P. Strobus, var. pumila, Beiss. (i. 292). 



A dwarfish bushy globose form with moderately long 

 silver-green leaves. Beissner makes var. puinila sjrnony- 

 mous with var. minima, but var. niini^na, Hort, in my 

 garden is so distinct that I describe it separately. 



P. Strobus, var. minima. 



A minute form, branchlets making an annual growth 

 of only I inch to IJ inches. Leaves very thin and fine, 

 but f airlv stiff, dark green, about 1 inch in length ; sHghtly 

 recurved. 



P. Strobus, var. prostrata, Beiss. (ii. 350, ex " Mitt. d. d. 

 d. Ges.," 1899, 107). 



A distinct creeping form. The stem, rising from the 

 ground, soon " knuckles " so that the branches, at first 

 horizontal, soon spread over the ground. 



Branchlets and foliage are normal. 



This form was first found by Rehder in the Arnold 



