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same Cypress develop in the shape of little globes of foliage, 
with no one shoot more prominent than another. 
Fig. 3. 
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Cupressus Lawsoniana, with pendulous branches. 
Another noteworthy feature is the tendency to “ fastigiation,” 
or an upward direction of the primary branches at an acute 
angle. This eventually results in the: production of a shrub or 
tree of pyramidal, flame-shaped, or columnar habit, differences 
arising from the relative length of stem and branches. This 
tendency is, of course, not peculiar to Cypresses, but it is so 
frequent in them that the Common Cypress, C. sempervirens, is 
rarely seen in any other shape than that of a pyramidal tree. 
Similar forms occur in the case of C. macrocarpa, which in the 
wild state has spreading branches as illustrated by Sir Joseph 
Hooker’s sketch (fig. 4), and C. Lawsoniana, the garden form of 
which, known as “ erecta-viridis,” is especially remarkable from 
this point of view (fig. 5, p. 320). 
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