308 TAXODIUM ; OR 



TaXODIUM DISTICHUM DENUDATUM, Ltroy. 



Branches, slender, long, horizontal, or drooping towards the 

 ends, irregularly, and little divided ; branchlets, fringed, with 

 scattered, variable, and unequally-distant leaves. 



This variety was raised by M. Leroy, nurseryman, at An- 

 gers, in the South of France. 



Taxodium DISTICHUM NANUM, Carriej'c. 



Branches, numerous, almost horizontal, short, and resembling 

 the species, but easily distinguished by its very small dimen- 

 sions, forming a very compact little bush, ten or twelve feet 

 high. 



It was raised by a nurseryman near Tours in France. 



No. 2. Taxodium microphyllum, Brongniart, the Small-leaved 



Deciduous Cypress. 



Syn. Taxodium distichum microphyllum, Spach. 



Leaves, very variable, in some linear, or ovate-lanceolate, 

 alternate, in two rows, or scattered, those at the base of the 

 shoots, from four to six lines long, tapering to a point, but 

 becoming very much smaller towards the extremities of the 

 branchlets, where they are hardly more than one or two lines 

 long ; oval, blunt-ended, and having the appearance of being 

 imbricated. 



Nothing is known of this kind beyond the description given 

 by M. Brongniart, who states that it is found in North America. 

 It in all probability is nothing more than a mountain form of 

 the common deciduous Cypress, as no collector or traveller in 

 the United States has discovered it since his time ; and the cir- 

 cumstance of the leaves becoming much smaller towards the 

 ends of the shoots, is quite a common occurrence in the de- 

 ciduous Cypress in dry seasons. 



