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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART 111. 



Si/nonymc. Fi-moro, Kcemj\f. Amten., p. 883. 



Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., t. 66. ; Staunt. Embass., t. 41. ; our fg. 2332. to our usual scale ; 

 figs. 2333. of the natural size ; and^g^. 2334. showing parts of the shoots magnified. 



pec. Char., Sjc. Branchlets ?-edged, leafy ; the olde.st very long, pendulous ; 

 the younger short, alternate, 2-rowed, spreading. {Lamb.) A tree, with a 

 large expanded head. Branches dichotomous, loose, leafless, much divided : 

 branchlets long, compressed, pendulous, closely covered with leaves ; again 

 divided, secondary branchlets short, spreading. Leaves imbricated in + rows, 

 rather .<tem-clasping, and triquetrous ; keeled, adpressed. Male catkins 

 numerous, ovate, more than one line long, solitary on the apex of the 

 branches, se.ssile ; female depressed, surrounded by spreading leaves, termi- 

 nating the very short inferior branchlets. Cone brownish, about the size 

 of a sloe. Scales 8-angled; mucros obtuse. Seeds yellowish. [I.amb.) A 

 tree, a native of China, said to have been introduced in 1808, but re- 

 specting which we know nothing with certainty. The pendulous cypress, 

 or TTiuja, at Chelsea, and in the Kew arboretum, may possibly be the same as Thunberg's plant. 



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App. i. Kinds qf Qiiprhsiis of which there are Plants iyi British 

 Gardetis, but of which very little is known. 



C. horixontalis Audibert. This plant has been already referred to, p. 2465, as being considered by 

 some to be the ^^ame as the spreading variety of C. sempervlrens ; and by others, as a distinct species. 

 As it has produced cones exactly resembling those of C. sempervlrens, we have no doubt of its being 

 only the spreading variety of that species. The tree in the Horticultural Society's Garden, received 

 from -Audibert in 18'i.0, is now 6 ft. high, of vigorous growth, and with spreading branches. 



C. ezpiiiisa Audibert, ? C. expi'insa Hart. Par. The tree received from Audibert's Nursery at 

 Tarascon in 18.34, and now in the Horticultural Society's Garden, was, in 1837, 2 ft. high. The C. 

 expinsaof the Horf. Far. is C. s. horizontalis. 



C. Fothergill'i Lee. A plant under this name is in the Horticultural Society's Garden, which was 

 received from the Hammersmith Nursery in 18.34. It is now 2 ft. high, and is found rather tender. 



C. thurlfera. A plant in the Horticultural Society's Garden, bearing this name, is only a few 

 inches high. 



C. Toiirnefiirtu Audibert. The plant bearing this name in the Horticultural Society's Garden, 

 received from Audibert in 1834, is 2 ft. high. 



C. baccifdrmis Willd A hardy tree, 20 ft. high. Introduced in 1SI8. 



C. austrcllis Pers. A shrub, with slender branches, a native of New Holland, and rather tender. 



Before anything can be determined with certainly respecting the above kinds, they must have 

 produced fruit; and, consequently, several years must elapse. Most of them are probably only 

 synonymes to species of 6'upressus above described, or of some of the kinds of Juniperus which will 

 hereafter be given. 



App. ii. Kirids of Oupressus not yet introduced. 



C. noulUaUiisis Lamb. Branchlets tetragonal. Leaves broad-ovate, acute, convex on the 

 back, imbricated in 4 rows, adpressed. Galbulus globose, almost sessile. Scales bossed, smooth, 

 (Lamb, Pin., ii. No. 60.) A tree. Branches round, spreading, scaly from the withered leaves, 

 covered with a brownish bark. Branches numerous, somewhat distant, tetragonal, short, spreading. 

 Leaves broad-ovate, acute, very thick, glabrous, shining, closely adpressed, imbricated in 4 rows, 

 convex on the back; adult ones shortly awl-shaped at the apex. Galbulus globose, lateral, the size of 

 a wild cherry, covered with a glaucous hue, on a very short scaly footstalk, similar to a branchlet ; 

 scales trapezoidal, peltate, smooth, bossed in the centre. (Lamb.) Discovered by Mr. Menzies, in 

 Nootki Sound, on the north-west coast of North America. 



C. japdnica Thunb. Jap., p. 265., Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 513., Lin. Supp., p. 421. Leaves 4-rowed, 

 compressed, furrowed, decurrent. {Thunb.) 



Genus XII. 



TAXO'DIUM iZicA. The Taxodium, or D-BC/cr/ora Cypress. TAn. Syst. 

 Monoe'cia Monadelphia. 



Iitenlification. Rich. Conif., p. 14.3. ; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 2. 

 Synonymes. Cupressus /,., Schiib^rt/a Mirb., Condyloc&rpus Salish. 

 Derivation. From lajcus, the yew, and eidos, like ; the trees resembling the yew. 



IJescription. Lofty, deciduous, and evergreen trees, natives of the southern 

 part of Nortli Aniurica; separated from the genus Cuprdssus, principally be- 

 cause tiie male catkins are (lisj)osed in loose spreading bunches, instead of 

 being solitary and terminal ; and becau.se the female catkins are roundish and 

 scalv, like the male, anti each scale has only 2 perfect flowers. The genus is 

 also distinguished by the embryo having from 5 to 9 cotyledons. The .species 

 are generally propagated by seedsy and the varieties by cuttings or layers. 



