CHAP. CXIII. 



CONrpER^E. ruPRE'SSUS. 



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Spec. Char., ^c. Branclilets quadrangular. Leaves imbricated in 4 rows, 

 obtuse, adpressed, convex. Cones globose ; scales niutic. Branches 

 straight. ( Willd.) An evergreen tree, a native of the south of Europe. 

 Introduced before 1348. 



Vaiieties. 



i C s. I stricta Mill. Diet., Cypres male, Fr., has the branches upright, 

 and closely pressed towards the trunk ; and is the most common 

 form of the species. (See the plate of C. sempervirens in our last 

 Volume.) 

 1 C. 5. 2 horizontdlis Mill. Diet.; C. horizontalis N. Du Ham., 3. p. 6.; 

 C. expansa Hort. Par. ; has the branches spreading. (See the plate 

 of this tree in our last Volume.) In the Nouv. Du Hanul, it is stated 

 that there is a very fine specimen of a horizontal cypress, which is 

 quite a distinct species, received from the Levant, in the Botanic 

 Garden at Montpelier, which has borne seeds, from which young 

 plants quite true to the parent have been raised. There is a tree 

 in the Horticultural Society's Garden, which is named C. s. hori- 

 zontalis, 12 ft. high, and received about 1825, from Godefroy, near 

 Paris ; and another named C. horizontalis, received from Audibert's 

 Nursery, in the south of France, also in 1825, but which is only 6 ft. 

 high. Mr. Gordon considers them to be quite distinct ; but they 

 appear to us to be the same. There is, also, in the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, a cypress, received from Messrs. Audibert in 

 1835, under the name of C. expansa; but we do not know whether 

 it is the C. expansa Hoj-t. Par., and it is at present too small, for us 

 to determine whether it is the same as M. Audibert's C. horizontalis. 

 Description. The evergreen cypress is a flame-shaped, tapering, cone-like 

 tree, with upright branches growing close to the trunk, and resembling in 

 general 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 found 

 much higher. Its frond-like branchlets are dichotomous,and are closely covered 

 with very small imbricated leaves, which, when old, become more distinct, 

 diverging, 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 are 

 yellowish, about 3 lines long, and very numerous. The female catkins are much 

 fewer, and of a roundish-oblong form. The cone, or nut, which was called by 



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