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Cham8ec3T)aris (or Retinospora) obtusa. (Obtuse- 

 leaved Japan Arbor Vitce. No. 49.) You will find this 

 rather poor specimen (for it is slowly dying) on the wes- 

 terly side of the North Meadow, near the fork of Walk 

 which bends to the west, to cross the Drive, and pass 

 out of the Park at the West One Hundredth Street 

 Gate. It stands quite near a handsome cluster of white 

 pines. These pines you can readily know by their hori- 

 zontal boughs and leaf bundles of five together in a 

 fascicle — the leaves about three or four inches long. 

 The Retinospora stands west of the Walk, near the 

 point of the fork, with a hemlock just back of it. The 

 leaves of the hemlock are flat, about half an inch long, 

 and white on the undersides. The Retinospora in 

 question is, as you see, doing very poorly. It is just 

 about holding its own. You see that its leaf-sprays 

 have a flattish, fan-like look. If you examine these 

 sprays closely, you will see that the leaves are scale- 

 like, closely pressed together and very blunt or obtuse. 

 Indeed they have a very jointed look. The small end 

 leaves seem to clasp the inner leaves of each row like 

 a pair of flat claws, and the whole row has a hard, 

 flat-squeezed look which is very distinctive. Blunt- 

 leaved is certainly a good name for this characteristic. 

 The cones are very small, made up of from eight to ten 

 light-brown, valvate, wedge-shaped scales. 



Euonymus Thunbergianiis (or alatus). (Thunberg's 

 Spindle Tree. Winged Spindle Tree. No. 7.) If 

 you take the Walk at the right (south) of the Drive, 

 upon entering the West Ninety-sixth Street Gate, and 

 proceed south-easterly with it, until you come to the 



