194 A HANDBOOK OF CONIFERS 



According to Sudworth a second species of Cwpressus, which 

 has been described as C. glabra, occurs in Cent. Arizona. It is 

 said to differ from C. arizonica in its smooth, purphsh bark and 

 in the absence of the strong pole-cat-hke odour which characterizes 

 the leaves of that species. The leaves have large resin glands, 

 those of true C. arizonica, according to Sudworth, being without 

 resin glands. Most of our cultivated plants have conspicuously 

 glandular leaves and therefore belong to C. glabra as defined by 

 Sudworth. 



The wood of C. arizonica is soft, close-grained, greyish with 

 yellow streaks, and is used locally for general carpentry and for 

 fuel. 



It is only suitable for the warmest parts of England and 

 Ireland. 



Cupressus cashmeriana, Royle. 

 Kashmir Cypress. 



Cupressus fiinebris, var. glauea, Masters. 



A small tree, apparently unknown in the wild state, although 

 stated by Carriere to be a native of Tibet. In cultivation it is a 

 tree of narrowly pyramidal habit with ascending branches and 

 remarkably pendulous branchlets which are often several feet long, 

 the older ones reddish brown and bare of leaves in the third or 

 fourth year. Branchlet systems long and pendulous, conspicu- 

 ously flattened, two- or three-pinnate, the ultimate divisions 

 compressed. Leaves glaucous or of an iridescent tinge, I'd-iV in. 

 long, with lance-like, spreading tips. Cones greenish yellow 

 with a glaucous tinge when young, dark brown when mature, 

 about I in. in diameter, globose ; scales 10, each with a central 

 depression and an acute, triangular, refiexed process. Seeds 

 numerous, about 10 to each scale, winged. 



This, the most beautiful and elegant of all the cypresses, 

 appears to be a juvenile form of C. torulosa which it closely 

 resembles in its cones. It was formerly considered to be a well- 

 marked variety of C. funebris, but differs from that species in 

 the larger number of cone scales and in having about 10 seeds on 

 each scale. 



The well-known specimen in the Temperate House at Kew 

 was cut down a few years ago owing to its having become too 

 large for its position ; there are, however, smaller ones in the same 

 building. The most famous tree in Europe is that on the Isola 

 Madre at Lake Maggiore. It is a specimen over 60 ft. high, of 

 remarkable beauty. C. cashmeriana can be grown out of doors 

 in the mildest parts of England and Ireland. 



