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and slightly appressed; those at tips of branchlets longest 

 and spreading. Leaf-sheath persistent; about -y^ inch; 

 light red-brown. 



A broad round shrub of very open growth, of which I 

 have only young plants. 



P. sylvestris, var. Genevensis, Beiss. (ii. 534). 



Buds. — Minute — under J inch, very dark crimson-brown. 



Branches. — Few and spreading. 



Branchlets. — Very fine and supple; annual growth 

 J to 1 inch ; grey-brown. 



Leaves. — | inch to \\ inches; very pale glaucous grey; 

 very thin and flexible ; much finer and narrower than any 

 other form. Leaves borne in small tufts on ends of 

 branchlets, rest of branchlet bare ; the leaves in the tufts 

 are more compressed and less spreading than in vars. 

 Beauvronensis or pygmcea. 



A distinct pygmy form of slow, spreading growth, 

 of which I have, and have seen, only small specimens. 

 I beheve this originated in the nurseries of Simon-Louis 

 Freres of Metz. 



P. sylvestris, var. nana, Carr. (i. 373). 



Buds. — Small — iV inch ; conical ; light brown ; non- 

 resinous. 



Branches. — Few and ascending. 



Branchlets. — Short and stiff, ascending at a very narrow 

 angle ; annual growth 1 J to 2 inches ; dark brown. 



Leaves. — Densely crowded (but not quite so crowded as 

 those of var. ^pyramidalis compacta), stout, and stiff; 

 appressed to branchlet and to each other; broad — about 

 x\ inch and from 1 inch to ij inches long; rarely twisted; 

 inclined to incurve; very glaucous blue-green. 



A narrow fastigiate form with its branches compressed 

 against the main stem, but not so compressed as those of 

 var. pyramidalis compacta, and differing also from that 

 variety in the colour of its leaves and the absence of leaves 



