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branches and long, whip-like branchlets which are undivided 

 for the greater part of their length, and terminate towards the 

 end in two -parted divisions. Leaves in alternately opposite 

 pairs, awl-shaped, sharp- pointed, about \ in. long, white on the 

 inner surface. A very distinct variety, and seemingly far removed 



Fig. 45.—CUPRESSUS PISIFERA. 



a, spray with five cones ; 6, branchlets ; c, cone ; d, seeds ; e, spray with juvenile foliage, known 



as C. Squarrosa. 



from the type, although it occasionally bears cones exactly like 

 those of C. pisifera. 



Var. filifera aurea, Hort. 



Exactly like the last named except that the young leaves and 

 shoots are golden. 



