VARIETIES OF CUPRESSUS OBTUSA. 



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Cupressus ol)tusa, Koch, Dendrologie, II. 168 (1873). Masters in Jotirn. R. 

 Hort. Soc. XIV. 207 ; and Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXI. 355. 



Champecyparis obtnsa, Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 63 (1847). Parlatore, D. C. 

 Prodr. XVI. 466. Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 129. Bcissner, Nadelholzk. 92, 

 with fig. 



Retinispora obtusa, Siebold et Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. II. 38, t. 121 (1842). 

 Gordon, Pinet, ed. II. 367 (Retinospora).* Synie in Gard. Chvon. V. (1876), 

 p. 235, with tigs. Kent in Veiteh's Manual, ed. I. 245, with tig. 



Thuya obtusa, Masters in Journ. Linn. Soc. XVIII. 491, with tig. 



Eng. Japanese Cypress. Fr. Cypres japonnais. Germ. Sonnencypresse. Ital. 

 Cipresso giaponese. Jap. Hi-no-ki. 



Amoiigt the many varieties and sub-varieties of Cupressus obtusa which 

 have originated under cultivation either in Japan or in European 

 gardens! the following retain their distinctive character more or less 

 permanently. They are all better 

 known in British gardens as Eetinos- 

 poras and in continental gardens as 

 Chamsecyparis forms. 



var. aurea. 



Of smaller dimensions and more 

 slender habit than the species ; 

 branchlets and foliage of a deep 

 golden yellow which is usually highly 

 developed during the growing season 

 and which changes to dark green in 

 the second year. 



var. compacta. 



A robust, dwarf form in which 

 the stem is much divided at the 

 base, the branches short, numerous 

 and crowded, and the branchlet 

 systems somewhat smaller in all their 

 parts. 



var. fUicoides. 



Of dwarfer and denser habit than 

 the common form. The branches are 

 thickly furnished with short fern- 

 like opposite branchlet systems of 

 nearly equal size. The leaves 



are closely imbricated in. four rows, 



thick in texture and of a rich deep green colour. fllicoides aurea 

 (syn. tetrayona) of slower growth and dwarfer habit than JUicoides, 

 and with all its branchlet systems rich golden yellow. 



C. obtusa tilicoides, supra. Retinispora filicoides, Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 364. 

 Synie in Gard. Chron. V. (1876), p. 235, with tig. Thuya obtusa tilicoides, 

 Masters in Journ. Linn. Soc. XVIII. 494. 



To this form probably belongs Chamcecyparis breviramea. Maximowicz in Bull. 

 Acad. St. Petersb. X. 489 (1866).? 



Fig. 65. Cupressus obtusa, var. filicoides. 



* Retinospora errore auctorum fere omnium nisi Endlicher. 



t Beissner enumerates and describes upwards of twenty, Nadelholzkunde, pp. 93 97. 

 Seen by him cultivated in gardens around Tokio and on the north coast of the island 

 of Kiusiu mixed with the normal Cupressus obtusa. 



