THE TRUE CYPRESSES. 



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Borealis), but differs in being much slenderer and smaller in all 

 its parts, and of a more graceful habit. 



Timber, good, clear, and easily worked, with a strong odour. 



It is quite hardy. 



No. 9. CuPRESSUS LusiTANicA, Miller. The Cedar of Goa. 

 Syn. Cupressus glauca, Lamarck. 

 „ pendula, Heritier, 

 „ glauca pendula, Hort. 

 „ „ tristis. Carriers. 



„ Lusitanica pendula, Hort. 

 „ „ patula, Tournefort. 



„ Sinensis, Lee. 

 „ „ pendula, Hort. 



„ „ glauca, Van Houtte. 



„ Libani glauca, Knight. 



Leaves, imbricated, opposite, four-rowed, acute, glaucous, 

 keeled and marked with a hollow gland on the back, stem 

 clasping, and adhering except at the points, broad at the base, 

 and tapering to an awl-shaped point. Branches, spreading, 

 divided, flexuose, horizontal, turned down at the points, scat- 

 tered on the stem, and rather distant, smaller ones branching out 

 and nearly pendant ; branchlets, four-sided when young, but 

 rounded when old, crowded, forked, spreading, incurved, 

 pendulous, and very numerous. Cones, globose, three quarters 

 of an inch in diameter, covered with glaucous grey powder, 

 solitary, and on the points of the short lateral branches. Scales, 

 shield- shaped, six or eight angled, and elongated into a reflexed 

 broad point, terminated by a small prickle. Seeds, yellowish, 

 and numerous, under each scale. 



A rather pendulous growing tree, attaining a height of 50 

 feet, growing plentiful in Spain and Portugal, particularly at 

 Bussaco, near Coimbra in Portugal, but introduced into those 

 countries from Goa, in the East Indies, where it grows to 

 an equal size with those of Spain and Portugal. 



It is rather tender in the climate of London, 



