360 THE BOOK OF EVERGREENS. 



There are many provisional varieties in cultivation 

 throughout Japan, founded, however, in many cases, upon 

 slight distinctions. 



Tar, aurea, Fortune, and Tar, argentea, Fortune. 

 Two new varieties recently introduced into England by 

 Fortune, who discovered them in the gardens about Yed- 

 do. They are quite distinct and desirable. 



1. R, leptoclada, Zuccarini. Syn. R. squarrosa lepto- 

 clada, Siebold. This is a large bush from 3 to 6 feet high, 



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growing on the mountains of Japan, and cultivated fre- 

 quently in the gardens around Yeddo. It is quite hardy 

 in England, and may possibly prove so in this country. 

 The foliage is of a bright glaucous-green color, and imbri- 

 cated on numerous small branchlets, forming a dense, com- 

 pact mass. 



5. R, lycopodioides,$fawf7/sA. A new species (?) but 

 recently brought to notice by Japanese collectors, and rep- 

 resented as remarkably elegant and graceful. The leaves 

 are very attractive in appearance, resembling small, dark 

 green scales, and the branches spreading somewhat like 

 R. oltusa. It was found in the gardens at Yeddo, in Ja- 

 pan, by Fortune. 



24. CRYPTOMERIA, Don. 



Flowers monoecious. Sterile aments, terminal, cluster- 

 ed and very numerous. Fertile aments, terminal, cluster- 

 ed, or solitary, sessile. Strobiles, spherical, clustered or 

 solitary ; with numerous, loose, wedge-shaped scales, and 

 from 3 to 5 seeds at the base of each carpellary scale. 

 Cotyledons, 2, 3, or 4. 



