92 SUPPLEMENT TO THE PINETUM. 



and lower sides of the branclilets, are flatly placed in straight 

 rows, of an ovate-rhomboid figure, and glossy-green towards 

 the points, with a transparent gland on the back, and two 

 glaucous white marginal bands, which only extend along the 

 lower half of the leaf, and are partially covered by the points 

 and sides of the hinder leaves ; branches thickly placed along 

 the stem, spreading and horizontal, lateral ones compact, very 

 dense, more or less irregularly clustered towards the points of 

 the branches, and composed of slender, closely imbricated, two- 

 edged, strap-shaped branchlets, little forked, but thickly placed 

 laterally on the fan-shaped spray, in irregularly arranged 

 clusters, especially towards the outer parts of the principal 

 branches. Cones globular, solitary, about the size of a pea, and 

 terminal on the points of the preceding year's branches. Seeds 

 in twos at the base of each scale, with a membranaceous wing. 



This kind forms a dense compact pyramidal evergreen bush, 

 growing from 3 to 6 feet high, furnished with branches down 

 to the ground, and thickly covered with numerous horizontal 

 branchlets and small spray, closely covered with imbricated, 

 more or less glaucous foliage, which gives the plant quite a 

 silvery-grey appearance. 



It is a native of the mountains of Japan, and is much culti- 

 vated in the Japanese gardens about Yeddo, where it is called 

 " Nezu" (dwarf), on account of its low, compact, pyramidal 

 appearance. 



A very desirable plant for small gardens, as it is quite hardy. 

 It was introduced by Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son, of the 

 "Wellington Nursery, St. John's Wood, in 1861, from the con- 

 tinent. 



Retinispora lycopodioides, Standishj the Clubmoss-like Re- 



tinispora. 



Syn. Cryptomeria sp., Veitch. 



„ Retinispora monstrosa, Hort. 



Leaves variously shaped, and densely arranged all round the 



shoots, those on the upper parts of the principal branchlets 



being more or less terete-pointed, or bluntly awl-shaped, or 



