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Var. ericoides, Sudw, (C. ericoides, Carr. Retinispora ericoides, Hort.). 

 Cedar Retinispora. Fig. 36. Compact shrub, of erect dense habit: leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, spreading, with 2 glaucous lines beneath, coloring in winter 

 usually reddish-brown. This and the preceding are juvenile forms. 



2. C. nootkatensis, Sudw. {Cupressus noot- 

 hatensis, Lambert. C. nutkaensis, Spach. 

 Thwjopsis borealis, Hort.). Nootka C. (Yel- 

 low Cedar). Tree to 120 feet, with ascending 

 branches, pendulous at the extremities; trunk 

 with brownish-gray irregularly fissured bark' 

 separating into large thin scales; branchlets 

 distichously arranged, on the upper part of 

 the tree in vertical planes, slightly flattened 

 or nearly quadrangular, pendulous: leaves 

 densely imbricate, usually dark green, acute, 

 on the leading shoots spreading at apex, mostly without 

 glands: cones subglobose, nearly }<2 inch diameter, 

 dark red -brown, with glaucous bloom; scales 4-6 with 

 erect pointed bosses, each with 2-4 broad-winged seeds. 

 Southwestern Alaska to Oregon. — Introduced to Europe 

 through the Petrograd Botanic Garden about 1850. 

 Hardy as far north as Ontario and New England. 

 Handsome tree of pyramidal shape with dark green 

 lustrous foliage, the branchlets with more or less pen- 

 dulous tips. 



Var. glauca, Beiss. {Thnyopsis borealis var. glauca, Jaeger). Blue Nootka 

 C. With very glaucous foliage. 



Var. lutea, Beiss. The young growth colored light yellow. 

 Var. pendula, Beiss. A form with distinctly pendulous branches. 

 Var. compacta, Beiss. A dwarf compact form. 



3. C. pisifera, Sieb. & Zucc. {Cupressus pisifcra, Koch. Retinispora pisifera, 

 Sieb. & Zucc). Sawara C. Fig. 37 and Plate XVIII. Tree to 100 feet tall, with 

 horizontal branches; trunk with red-brown, thin, rather smooth bark peeling 

 off in thin strips; branchlets flattened, distichously arranged in horizontal 

 planes and somewhat pendulous: leaves ovate-lanceolate, with mucronate 

 tips, slightly spreading, obscurely glandular, shining above, with whitish 

 lines beneath: cones globular, M-H inch diameter, brown; scales 10, rarely 

 12, with a small mucro at the depressed center, each scale with 1-2 broad- 

 winged seeds. Japan. — Introduced in 1861 by J. G. Veitch to Great Britain 

 and the following year by Dr. G. R. Hall to America. Hardy as far north as 

 southern Ontario and New England. A tree of fairly rapid growth with a 

 narrow-pyramidal rather loosely branched head, the horizontal branches 



3G. 



Charasecyparis 

 thyoides var. 

 ericoides. 



