CHAP. CX1II.

CONl'pEH/E. rUPKE'SSUS.

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Spec. Char., fyc. Branchlets quadrangular. Leaves imbricated in 4 rows,obtuse, adpressed, convex. Cones globose ; scales mutic. Branchesstraight. (Wi/ld.) An evergreen tree, a native of the south of Europe .Introduced before 1548.

Varieties.

1 0. s. 1 stricta Mill. Diet. , Cypres male, Fr., has the branches upright,and closely pressed towards the trunk ; and is the most commonform of the species. (See the plate of C. sempervirens in our lastVolume.)

1 C.i.2 horizontalis Mill. Diet. ; C. horizontalis N. Du Ham., 3. p. 6.;C. expansa llart. Par.; has the branches spreading. (See the plateof this tree in our last Volume.) In the Nouv. Du Hamel , it is statedthat there is a very fine specimen of a horizontal cypress, which isquite a distinct species, received from the Levant, in the BotanicGarden at Montpelier, which has borne seeds, from which youngplants quite true to the parent have been raised. There is a treein the Horticultural Society’s Garden, which is named C. s. hori-zontalis, 12 ft. high, and received about 1825, from Godefroy, nearParis ; and another named C. horizontalis, received from Audibert’sNursery, in the south of France , also in 1825, but which is only 6 ft.high. Mr. Gordon considers them to be quite distinct; but theyappear to us to be the same. There is, also, in the HorticulturalSociety’s Garden, a cypress, received from Messrs. Audibert in1835, under the name of C. expansa; but we do not know whetherit is the C. expansa Hart. Par., and it is at present too small, for usto determine whether it is the same as M. Audibert’s C. horizontalis.Description. The evergreen cypress is a flame-shaped, tapering, cone-liketree, with upright branches growing close to the trunk, and resembling ingeneral appearance the Lombardy poplar; but, even in its native country,rarely rising above the height of 50 ft. or 60 ft., though it is sometimes foundMuch higher. Its frond-like branchlets are dichotomous, and are closely coveredwith very small imbricated leaves, which, when old, become more distinct,“'verging, and sharp-pointed : they are of a yellowish green, smooth, shining,and persistent, remaining on the tree for 5 or 6 years. The male catkins areyellowish, about 3 lines long, and very numerous. The female catkins are muchtewer, and of a roundish-oblong form. The cone, or nut, which was called by

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