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CONIFERA:. 
CUPRESSINEA. 
by Dr. Siebold, growing wild on the Hakone Cupressee 
mountains in Japan, and is universally cultivated 
for ornament throughout Japan and Northern 
China. ‘It is also said to be found in Tartary 
and Nepaul, but on very doubtful authority.” 
(Gordon). 
CUPRESSUS LUSITANICA. 
Loudon, v. 4. 2477. 
Syn. C. glauca. 
Endlicher Synops. Con. 
I was much struck with the beauty of this tree Cupressus 
in the Gardens of Madeira, where it is much ZescZLa,: 
cultivated for ornament. It there forms a tree of 
considerable size, of a remarkably graceful and 
beautiful habit, and of a very delicate and pleasing 
glaucous colour; very much branched and with 
branches most gracefully weeping. It had been 
introduced from Portugal. I brought home some 
ripe cones, and from the seeds a great number of 
young plants were raised here at Barton. Several 
were planted out, in the arboretum and American 
garden, grew vigorously and rapidly, and bore 
some winters without injury. By last summer 
(1860) some of these were, at least, eight feet high, 
and already of great beauty. The intense frost of 
December, 1860, and January, 1861, killed them 
