170 DWABF AND SLOW-GROWING CONIFERS 



very little further doubt but that Kent and Beissner's 

 identification is right, and that the so-called T. orientalis 

 ericoides of Masters and Bean is in reahty T. occidentalis 

 ericoid^s ; as a corollary, " T. Watereri,'' Hort., must also 

 be T. occidentalis Water eri. 



T. occidentalis ericoides forma Watereri. 



A form growing at Gowran Castle, Co. Kilkenny, and 

 at Blandsfort, Queen's Co., under the name of " T. 

 Watereri " ; its origin is unknown, but growing at the 

 former place twenty-five to thirty years, anyhow. It is 

 a juvenile state of the same type as T. occidentalis, var. 

 ericoides, but is distinct from that in size of leaf and habit. 

 Ko juvenile form appears in A. Waterer's catalogue of 

 1875, nor in his present one, nor does he know anytlung 

 about it, and in J. Waterer's only " Betinospora ericoides '* 

 appears. The catalogue does not state whether this var. 

 ericoides is of Zucc. or Hort, but in any case var. Watereri 

 is neither of these. 



It makes a low bush of several leading plumose shoots, 

 none of which appear able to support themselves, and 

 flop about; the branches and branchlets are all ascending 

 and remarkably thin and fine. A normal branchlet grows 

 about 3 inches annuaUy, but being so fine and unable to 

 hold itself erect, it contracts by a series of curves or 

 spirals into a length of about 2 inches, and is fight yeUow- 

 green in colour in summer and the usual dirty yellow- 

 bro\\TL in winter. Leaves very thin, and set about J inch 

 apart in opposite pairs, mostly minute — ^V hich and J inch 

 — but a few, usuaUy in middle of branchlet, up to | inch. 

 Lower side sHghtly convex and minutely keeled; upper 

 side shghtly rounded with median groove. Irregular in 

 direction — some point forward with incurved tips, others 

 outward with straight or even recurved tips ; very narrow, 

 thin, fine, and heath-hke, tapering to a fine point. 



A curious plumose form of var. ericoides. 



