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bear leaves uniform in shape, like those of a true Cypress. An 
illustration of this may be cited in the case of Cupressus obtusa 
var. lycopodioides, commonly called Retinospora lycopodioides in 
Fig. 5. 
Cupressus Lawsoniana var. erecta-viridis, with fastigiate branches. 
gardens, whilst in the neighbouring genus Tuya Bodmeri, hort., 
furnishes a similar example. 
Foliage.—The leaves of Cypresses are mostly four-ranked, 
tetrastichous, rarely, and only temporarily, tristichous, as in the 
seedling state. Sometimes all the leaves of the same order are 
uniform in shape; at other times, as in the section Chamecyparis, 
the antero-posterior or facial leaves are flattened against the axis, 
whilst the lateral ones are more or less conduplicate. 
In those species in which the leaves are uniform, the ultimate 
shoots are more or less distinctly four-cornered, and the 
