VARIETIES OF CUPRESSUS LAWSONIANA. 207 



var. gracilis pendula. 



More slender in all its parts, the branches long in proportion to height 

 of trunk and pendulous, gracilis pendula aurea all the growths 

 of the current season golden yellow changing in autumn to bright grass- 

 green, and in the succeeding season to the normal dark green of the species. 



var. inter texta. 



More robust in all its parts, with more distant arching branches and 

 more divergent ramification ; foliage usually paler than in the common 

 form. 



var. j uniperina. 



The youngest growths very slender with minute leaves resembling 

 those of a Savin Juniper ; the axial growths of the branchlet systems 

 conspicuous by their yellowish tint. 



var, nana. 



A diminutive form of slow growth, dense globose habit and deep green 

 colour. nana alba has the whole of the current season's growth 

 yellowish white, and that of nana glauca bluish green. 



var. pendula vera. 



The primary branches and their appendages bent downwards towards 

 the ground. In another form the primary branches are short, rigid and 

 horizontal, and the secondary branches with their branchlet systems are 

 strictly pendulous. 



var. Shawii. 



A globose shrub with slender branchlets and light glaucous green 

 foliage. Of larger size and more open habit than the variety compacta, 

 and with foliage of a deeper shade of green. 



var. Wisselii. 



A so-called " plumose " variety of dense dwarf habit, with erect 

 branches on which the branchlets are much crowded and the branchlet 

 systems appears tufted like those of C. thy aides leptodada. Leaves" free 

 at the apex and bright grass-green. 



var. Youngi. 



Branchlets stout and spreading, the branchlet systems fern-like and 

 of a rich dark green like those of C. obtusa filicoides which this 

 variety simulates both in habit and colour. 



Varieties distinguished "by the colour of the foliage. 

 var. alba spica. 



The terminal growths and tips of the branchlets cream-white. Of 

 more rapid growth and less dense in habit than the common form. 

 alba spica nana is a dwarf compact sub-variety of this. 



var. albo-variegata (syns. albo-maculata and albo-picta). 



Branchlet systems and foliage deep green profusely spotted and 

 checkered with white. Of broadly conical or spreading habit. 



