268 CRYPTOMEPJA JAPONICA. 



habit as usually seen, but in the warm and humid climate of Devon and 

 Cornwall, so large a head is sometimes formed that the stem bends 

 towards the ground under the weight of its appendages and is sometimes 

 snapped off by the wind. Lobbii was introduced by the Veitchian h'rm 

 shortly after Fortune's discovery through Thomas Lobb, from the 



Fig. 81. Cryptomeria japonica, var. elcgans. 



Buitenzorg Botanic Garden whither it had been sent from Japan by 

 Siebold twenty years earlier. Nana and spiralis are monstrous forms of 

 dwarf and singular habit chiefly used for the rock garden ; sinensis is 

 the form originally introduced by Fortune; all the older arborescent 

 Cryptomerias growing in Great Britain with the exception of the variety 

 Lobbii are referable to this form. 



