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coni'fer.e cupre'ssus.

2481

t 1. T. di'stichtjm Rich. The two-ranked-/e«m/ Taxodium, or Deciduous

Cypress.

Identification. Rich, in Ann. Mus., xvi. p. 298. j M^m. sur les Conif., p. 53. 143.; Lamb. Pin.ed.2., 2. t. 63.

Synonymcs. Cupressus disticha Lin. Sp. PI., 1422., Hort. Cliff'., P- 499-, Gron. Virg., p. 153.,Michx. FI. Bor. Amer., 2. p. 208., Arb., 3. p. 4., N. Amer. Syl., 3. p. 197., Pursh FI. Amer. Sept.,2. p. 645., Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836; C. americ&na Cat. Carol., 1. p. 11.: C. virgintena Comm. Hort.,1. p. 113., Pluk. Aim., p. 125. j Schubertia disticha Mirb., Laws. Man., p. 392.; bald Cypress,Cypress, Amer .; Cyprus de I’Amdrique, Cypres chauve. Fr .; zweyzeilige Cypresse Ger.

Engravings. Rich. Conif., t. 10.; Michx. Arb., 3. t. 1., North Amer. Syl., 3.; Catesb. Car., t. 11.;Comm. Hort., 1. t. 59.; Pluk. Aim., t. 85. f. 6.; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., t. 63.; our fig. 2335.; and theplates of this tree in our last Volume.

Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves 2-rowed, flat, deciduous. Male flowers leafless andpanicled. Cones somewhat globose. ( Willd .) A lofty deciduous tree;a native of North America. Introduced before 1640.

Varieties.

“£ T. d. 1 patens Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., v. p. 323. — Leaves approximate,and strictly 2-rowed. This is the most common form.

“t T. d. 2 nutans, 1. c. ; T. d. pendula Loud. Hort. Brit. ; the long-leaveddeciduous Cypress; has the leaves much longer and drooping, butmore remote and thinner. There is a tree of this variety in Lod-diges’s arboretum, of which Jigs. 2336. and 2337. are portraits ; Jig.23.36. being taken when the fronds or deciduous shoots are first7 x 2