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the following season, plumosa aurea lias its terminal shoots with 

 their foliage light golden yellow which gradually subsides to deep 

 green as the season advances, and is succeeded in the following year 

 by a renewal of the yellow growth. 



C. pisifera plumosa, Masters in Journ. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 207 ; and 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXI. 358. Chamrecyparis pisifera plumosa, Beissner, Nadel- 

 holzk. 87. Retinispora plumosa, Gordon. Pinet. ed. II. 370. Syme in Gard. 

 Chron. V. (1876), p. 235, with 'fig. 



var. squarrosa. 



A low tree, some times taking the form, of a large bush of irregular 

 outline. Trunk usually divided and forked near the base, the branches 

 much ramified ; branchlets spreading and furnished with short flattened 

 acicular leaves in decussate pairs and of almost silvery whiteness. 



C. pisifera squarrosa, Masters in Journ. R. Hort. Soc. XIV, 207 ; and Journ. 

 Linn.. Soc. XXXI. 358. Chanisecyparis pisifera squarrosa, Beissner, Nadelholzk. 

 85, with fig. Retinispora squarrosa, Siebold and Zuccaiini, Fl. Jap. II. 40, t. 123. 

 Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 137. Gordon, Pinet, ed. II. 371. 



Fig. 70. Clipped trees of Cuprcssus obtusa or C. pisifera near Tokio, Japan. 



The notes relating to the habitat of Cuprcssus obtusa and the uses 

 to which it is applied in Japan are equally applicable to C. pisifera* 

 except that the latter is not held sacred by the Japanese in so high a 

 degree as the former and that its timber is not so valuable. Although 

 almost always found growing together and in old age scarcely 

 distinguishable from each other, they have long been recognised as distinct 

 species by the Japanese who designate each by different vernacular 

 names, calling C. obtusa Hi-no-ki and C. pisifera Sa-wa-ra. C. pisifera 

 and all its varieties of Japanese origin that are in cultivation in this 

 country were introduced by the late Mr. John Gould Veitch in 1861. 



* The habitat of Cupressus pisifera is probably not confined to Japan ; it was gathered 

 by Dr. Anderson in the Chinese province ofYun-nan in 18701871, but whether wild or 

 cultivated is not stated. 



