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VARIETIES OF CUPRESSUS PISIFERA. 



var. fllifera. 



A low tree or sub-prostrate shrub in which both the primary branches 

 and the axial growths of the branchlet systems are greatly elongated 

 at the expense of the lateral shoots which are distant, short and 

 sparsely ramified. Leaves more distant, more acute and less appressed 

 than in the type, and fulvous green in colour. filifera aurea has 

 all the terminal growths light golden yellow; filifera gracilis is a 

 dwarfer form with more slender terminal shoots. 



C. pisifera filifera, Masters in Journ. R. Hort. Soe. XIV. 207. Chamsecyparis 

 pisifera filifera, Beissner, Nadelholzk. 90, with fig. Retinispora filifera, Gordon, 

 Pinet. ed. II. 364. Syme in Gard. Chron. V. (1876), p. 235. Chamsecyparis 

 pendula, Maximowicz in Bull. Aca'i. Sc. Petersb. X. 489. 



Cupressus pisifera,, var. squarrosa. 



var. plumosa. 



A smaller tree of denser habit and more strictly conical outline, 

 with numerous short ascending branches thickly furnished with lateral 

 shoots ; branchlet systems decurved at the distal end. Leaves awl- 

 shaped, more or less spreading, dark green. plumosa albo-picta 

 has the tips of the branchlets cream- white, imparting to the plant a 

 speckled and spotted appearance. plumosa argentea- has nearly 

 the whole of the young growths cream-white which becomes green in 



