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CUPRESSUS. 
Linn. Gen. 1079 ex Tournefort, Instit. 358; Jussieu, Gen. 
413; Richard, Conif. p. 142, t. 9; Endlicher, Synops. p. 55; 
Spach, Hist. Nat. Vég. Phan. xi. p. 323; Carrière, Traité, p. 114; 
Gordon, Pinetum, p. 56; Henk. et Hochst. Nadelholz, p. 230 ; 
Parlatore in DC. Prod. xvi. 11. p. 467; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. 
ii. 427 ; Koch, Deudrologie, ii. rr. 145; Engelmann in Watson, 
Botany of California, ii. 113 (1880); Kent in Veitch, Manual, 
225; Eichler in Engler u. Prantl, Die natürlichen Pflanzen- 
familien (1889), i. Teil, 1 Abteilung, p. 99; Beissner, Handbuch 
der Nadelholzkunde (1891), p. 99; Baillon, Hist. des Plantes 
(Coniféres) (1892), p. 34. 
Subgenus Evcupressvs. 
Strobili secundo anno maturescentes. Squame peltate lignose. 
Semina sub quávis squamá fere plurima.—Ramuli ultimi tetra- 
stichi vel distichi. Folia plerumque homomorpha. 
1. C. SEMPERVIRENS, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1422, a et B (1753). 
Arbor seu frutex coma effusa vel fastigiata densissime ramu- 
losa; ramis teretibus fuscis vel rubris; foliis ramealibus dissitis 
longe concrescentibus late ovatis vel ovato-oblongis obtusis ab- 
rupte mucronatis, mucrone appresso vel patente ; ramis herbaceis 
ovato- vel oblongo-lanceolatis raro suborbicularibus, planiusculis 
horizontalibus seu ascendentibus surde viridibus seu cinerascen- 
tibus, subregulariter distiche vel tetrastiche bi-tripinnatim ramu- 
losis, ramulis ultimis strictis subzqualibus gracilibus pene 4-an- 
gulatis; foliis ultimis arcte imbricatis appressis parvis 1-2 mill. 
long., facialibus rhomboideis seu oblongo-rhomboideis obtusi- 
usculis dorso convexiusculis, glandulá impressá notatis; amentis 
masculis in apices ramulorum solitariis terminalibus oblongis 
obtusis 2-3 mill. long. aurantiacis ; squamis antheriferis suborbi- 
eularibus; strobilis aggregatis vel raro solitariis peduneulatis 
raro subsessilibus, magnitudine et formá magnopere variantibus, 
subglobosis, vel oblongis obtusis, squamis 8—14 obscure 5-angu- 
latis, dorso planiusculis, pyramidato-umbonatis vel umbilicatis, 
rugulosis seu leviusculis nitidis fusco-castaneis vel cinereis, 
bracteá ad apicem libera mucronis instar nonnunquam obtusius- 
cula foliaceá. 
Cotyledones 2-3 patentia 10-15 mill. long. linearia-obtusa. 
Foliorum primordialium verticillus cotyledonibus arcte approxi- 
