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Branchlets. — Fine; flexible; very glaucous grey-green; 

 annual growth 1 to 2j inches. 



Leaves. — Linear, terminating in a short, very abrupt 

 point, and set rather far apart with long decurrent bases, 

 and arranged spirally and alternately both on leading 

 shoots and on branchlets, but in the latter case the free 

 part of the leaves — which varies in length from i to | inch 

 — is twisted in various directions, so that, irrespective 

 of the position of the decurrent bases, the free parts of the 

 leaves arrange themselves almost pectinately, pointing 

 out and forward at an acute angle. Both upper and 

 lower sides are very glaucous grey-green, and the tips of 

 the young shoots are frequently pale yellow or white. 



I found this plant growing in the Rock Garden at 

 Curragh Grange, Co. Kildare, without a name, and origin 

 unknown; it is planted, anyhow, over fifteen years in its 

 present position, and is sprouting out from between two 

 rocks and flowing down their sides in a close mat-hke 

 formation, and is now about 40 inches long and 36 inches 

 across. I succeeded in propagating a cutting now four 

 years old, but it is still only a few inches in length. 



TAXODIUM. 



Taxodium distichum, Rich., var. fasciatum, Carr. (ii. 185). 

 This Carriere describes as a dwarf, monstrous form of the 

 deciduous cypress, originating from a sporting branch on 

 the type. It forms a small bush of stout, swollen branches, 

 fasciated and sometimes twisted, covered with linear 

 leaves. 



TAXUS, Tourn. 



The yews are so slow-growing that most of the arbores- 

 cent forms can be retained for a time. The dwarf forms 

 are in some confusion. Several mentioned by early writers 

 upon conifers, like Gordon, are now no longer obtainable, 

 and from imperfect descriptions it is not easy to decide 

 whether several forms recently introduced by Continental 

 nurserymen are reintroductions or new varieties. 



