KKTI\<)SPORA 



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RETINOSPORA (604) filicoides is of slow growth, wit^ uense, fern- 

 like branchlets. The most peculiar of all the Ilinoki Cypresses is S\s- 

 DEK'S RKTINOSI-OHA (iiO.">) ericoides; it is a small dense shrub with 

 blunt stiff spreading lea\es forming tour rows on the stems; in color it 

 is the brightest hluish green iif any of the coniferous plant-;. 



Chama'eyparis pisit'era has but tew dwarf forms with fan-shaped spray; 

 the tendency is more apt to be toward linear spreading lea\es. TIIKIOAD- 

 BRANCHED RiniNOSPORA (<>0li) tilifera has peculiar el. moated .thread- 

 like growth of twites with distant sharp-pointed leaves; alow tree or 

 subprostrate shrub ; of this there is a glaucous-leaved form, glauca. 



FIG. 607. Common Juniper. 



FIG. 608. Curved-branched Juniper. 



The varieties of PEA-FRUITED RIITINOSPORAS with longer and more 

 spreading leaves are among the most popular and beautiful of the ever- 

 greens of Japan. FEATHERY PEA- FRUITED RETIXOSPORA Chanuecyparis 

 pisffera pluinosa has awl-shaped spreading leaves dark green in color and 

 is often called (im i:\ RETINOSPOBA. The colored forms of this are: 

 STICKLED IU:TIM>-PI: A plumosa albo-picta, with the tips of the 

 branchlets cream-white ; CREAMY KETINOSI-OKA plumosa argc ; ntea, 

 with the whole of the young spray cream-white, becoming green the fol- 

 lowing seas. m ; and GOLDEN KETINOSPOUA plumosa aiirea, with all 

 the terminal shoots light golden yellow in the spring and changing to a 

 deep green later. Besides the Feathery Retinosporas, there is a variety 

 with linear leaves in pairs spreading squarely from the stems, of almost a 

 sihery color, SILVER RETINOSPORA Channecyparis pisffera sijnarrosa. 



