64 CUPRESSUS; OR 



CUPRESSUS LUSITANICA VARIEGATA, LaWSOTl. 



This differs only in having white leaves intermixed on the 

 branchlets with the ordinary ones. 



No. 10. CuPRESSus Mac-Nabiana, Murray, Mr. Mac-NaVs 



Cypress. 

 Syn. Cupressus glandulosa, Hooker. 

 „ Juniperus Mac-Nabiana, Lawson's Catalogue. 



Leaves, in opposite pairs, distant, and spreading, broadest at 

 the base, glaucous, and tapering to a sharp point, decurrentj 

 and keeled, with a hollow gland upon the under-side on young 

 plants, while on the adult plants they are much shorter, blunter- 

 pointed, thicker towards the ends, loosely imbricated, and with 

 a large hollow gland in the centre on the outside. Branches, 

 short, mostly opposite, thickly set on the stem, and curved 

 upwards at the points ; branchlets, short, dense, slender, stiff, 

 and closely covered with small, oval, blunt- pointed leaves in four 

 rows. Cones, globular, three quarters of an inch in diameter, 

 frequently clustered on the upper branches, or singly, on short, 

 thick, woody footstalks. Scales, in opposite pairs, mostly six in 

 number, rather more than half an inch across, irregularly four- 

 sided, each elevated in the centre, and terminated with a stout 

 blunt point, sometimes slightly curved, particularly on the half- 

 grown cones. Seeds, mostly angular, but sometimes rounded, 

 and with scarcely any trace of the wings. 



A compact, rather pyramidal, glaucous bush, growing from 6 

 to 10 feet high. 



It was first discovered by Mr. Jeffrey, on the Shasta moun- 

 tains, in Northern California, in lat. 41°, at an elevation of 

 5000 feet, and afterwards by Mr. Murray in the same country, 

 who transmitted seeds to Messrs. Lawson. This beautiful 

 Cypress is perfectly hardy, and must not be confounded with a 

 more slender and less ornamental kind, substituted for it by 

 an importer of Californian Conifers. 



