194 VARIETIES OF JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA. 



and producing only staminate flowers. A second form has long and 

 slender primary branches that with their appendages are more or less 

 pendulous ; this was known in some gardens as Chamberlayne's Weeping 

 Red Cedar. A third has elongated pendulous branchlets clothed with 

 bright green scale-like leaves ; it is the handsomest of the three, and 

 the only one generally cultivated at the present time. 



J. virginiana pendula, Carriers, Traite Conif. ed. II. 46. Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 

 156. Beissner, Nadelholzk. 125. J. virginiana pendula viridis, Hort. J. virgin- 

 iana Chamuerlaynei, Hort. J. virginiana Smithii, Hort. And others. 



var. Schottii. 



A narrowly pyramidal or columnar tree of smaller dimensions and denser 

 habit than the common form ; the younger branchlets are shorter, more 

 crowded and clothed with scale-like foliage of a remarkably bright 

 green colour. 



J. virginiana Schottii, Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 157. Beissner, Nadelholzk. 126. 

 J. virginiana viridis, Hort. 



var. tripartita. 



A low, spreading shrub with the habit of the common Savin ; branches 

 and branchlets much ramified and clothed with acicular leaves only 

 that have a bluish green tint caused by the apparent blending of the 

 glaucous stomatiferous lines with the green surface. 

 J. virginiana tripartita, Gordon. 



Varieties distinguished by the colour of the foliage. 

 var. albo-variegata (syn. alba spica). 



This has many of the youngest growths and leaves cream- or yellowish 

 white interspersed among the green branchlets and which change to 

 pale green in the following season. 



var. aureo - variegata. 



In this variety many of the young growths are yellow ; the variega- 

 tion is sometimes unequally distributed over the plant. 



var. elegans. 



Branchlets slender and elongated, clothed with acicular foliage and 

 having many of the youngest lateral growths light yellow. 



Var. glauca (syn. argentea). 



In this variety the whole of the youngest growths and their- foliage 

 are of almost silvery whiteness, which changes to pale glaucous green in 

 winter. 



var. Triomphe d'Angers. 



The greater portion of all the terminal growths cream-white, affording 

 a strong contrast to the dark bluish green of the older foliage. 



Besides the varieties described above, a large number of others which 

 have originated in the seed-beds of British and continental nurseries 

 have received distinguishing names ; it is, however, doubtful whether 

 many of them can now be identified, as seminal varieties frequently 

 lose their distinctive character with age. 



