. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 213 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,
. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 213 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
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