168 DWAEF AND SLOW-GROWING CONIFERS 



Pendulous Forms : 



There are several pendulous forms of T. occidentalis. 

 One in the Rock Garden at Curragh Grange, Co. Kildare, 

 has a low stem of about 3 feet high, from which extend 

 long, almost horizontal branches with pendulous branch- 

 lets. This is probably var. pendula, Beiss. (ii. 507). 

 There is said to be a variety of this with grey-green f ohage, 

 called var. glauca. Var. reflexa, Beiss. (ii. 508) seems 

 similar to this. 



T. occidentalis, var. ericoides, Kent (Veitch, "Conif.," 

 1881-1900; Beiss., "Nad.," 1894-1909). 



Syn. : T. ericoides, Hort. 



T. orientalis, var. ericoides, Bean (" Trees and 



Shrubs," ii. 587). 

 Eetinospora dubia, Carr. ("Conif.," ii., 141, 



1867). 

 B. ericoides, Hort. (not Zucc). 

 E. juniperoides, Gordon (ii. 564) (not Carr.). 



Branches. — Erectly spreading, much divided, and 

 compact. 



Branchlets. — Slender, flexible, more or less erect; 

 dense and very numerous. 



Leaves. — Heath- hke; Knear; spreading distantly; borne 

 in opposite pairs; upper side flat, lower sUghtly round; 

 acute point; yellow-green in summer and dirty brown in 

 winter. Irregular in direction, mostly pointing up, but 

 some out or down. Leaf tips inclined to incurve. A small 

 dense compact pyramidal bush, seldom 3 to 4 feet. This 

 is the juvenile form of T. occidentalis. 



There has been great confusion in the naming of this 

 plant. Masters took it to be a juvenile form of T. 

 orientalis, and so described it in the Kew hand list, and 

 Bean followed Masters. 



Kent and Beissner, on the other hand, identified it as a 

 variety of T. occidentalis, and I have no doubt but that 

 they were right. 



