CH/VP. cxrrr. 



coNi fer;e cupre ssus. 



2481 



t 1. T. Di'sTiCHUM Rich. The tvi o-r onkeA-leaved Taxodium, or Deciduous 



Cypress. 



Identification. Rich, in Ann. Mus., xvi. p. 298. ; Mem. sur les Conif, p. 53. 143. ; Lamb. Pin. 

 ed.2.,2. t.63. 



Synonymes. Cupressus disticha Lin. Sp. PI., 1422., Hort. Cliff"., p. 499., Gron. J'irg., p. l5o., 

 Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 2. p. 208., Arh., 3. p. 4., 'S. Amer. Syl., 3. p. 197., Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 

 2. p. 645., Lodd. Cat., ed. IS.'JG ; C. americJlna Cat. Carol., 'i. p. 11. ; C. virgini^na Comm. Hort., 

 1. p. 113., Pink. Aim., p. 125.; Schubertm disticha Uirh., Laws. Man., p. 392.; bald Cypress, 

 Cypress, Amer. ; Cyprfes de rAm^rique, Cypres chauve. Fr. ; zweyzeilige Cypresse Ger. 



Engravings. Rich. Conif., t. 10. ; Michx. Arb., 3. t. 1., North Amer. Syl., 3. ; Catesb. Car., t. 11. ; 

 Comm. Hort., 1. t.59. ; Pluk. Aim., t. 85. f. 6.; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2.,t. 63. ; out fig. 2335.; and the 

 plates of this tree in our last Volume. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves 2-rowed, flat, deciduous. Male flowers leafless and 

 panicled. Cones somewhat globose. {Willd.) A lofty deciduous tree; 

 a native of North America. Introduced before 1640. 



Varieties, 



^T. d. \ patens Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., v. p. 323. — Leaves approximate, 



and strictly 2-rowed. This is the most common form. 

 t T. d. 2 nutans, 1. c. ; T. d. Y^ewAuXa. Loud . Hort. Brit. ; the long-leaved 

 deciduous Cypress ; has the leaves much longer and drooping, but 

 more remote and thinner. There is a tree of this variety in Lod- 

 diges's arboretum, of which figs. 2336. and 2.337. are portraits ; fig. 

 2336. being laken when the fronds or deciduous shoots are first 

 7x 2 



