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THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS 



Forms of spreading and pendulous habit: gracilis, Beiss. (var. gracilis 

 pendula, Hort.). Fountain Lawson C. Elegant light green form, with 

 graceful pendulous branehlets. Var. intertexta, Beiss. Glaucous growth, 

 with remote pendulous branches and distant thickish branehlets. Var. 

 pendula, Beiss. Weeping Lawson C. With pendu- 

 lous branches. 



42. Chamsecyparis Lawsoniana, 

 showing three cones. 



Compact or dwarf forms: Var. Bowleri, Beiss. A dense, compact form, 

 with the tips of the branclilets elongated and pendulous. Var. nana, Beiss. 

 (C. Boursieri nana, Carr.). Dwarf Lawson C. Dwarf globose habit. Var. 

 "nana glauca," Beiss., has the' young growth bluish-green. Var. "minima 

 glauca," Beiss. Dwarf and compact conical form with dark steel-blue foliage. 



4. THUJOPSIS, Sieb. & Zuec. 



Evergreen tree with spreading branches; branehlets broad, much flattened 

 and frond-like, arranged in horizontal planes : leaves opposite and decussate, 

 with white markings below: staminate flowers with 6-10 decussate pairs of 

 stamens: cones subglobose; scales 6-10, rhomboidal, imbricate, flat, woody, 

 usually with a mucro below the apex, the upper pair sterile, the fertile scales 

 with 3-5 winged seeds each; cotyledons 2. (Name derived from Thuja and 

 Greek o^psis, likeness; referring to its close relation to that genus.) Also 

 spelled Thuyopsis or Thyopsis. — Only one species known. 



