368 THE BOOK OF EVERGREENS. 



Var. nanum, Carriere. Another of those chance kinds 

 from one of the French nurseries, and is very small in all 

 its parts, resembling the species in miniature. It grows 

 but 10 or 12 feet in height. 



26. GI.YPTOSTROBUS, EndlicJi&r. 



Flowers, monoecious, the two sexes on separate branch- 

 es, and resembling Taxodium. Cones oval or ovate. 

 Ovules 2, under each carpellary scale. Scales coriaceous, 

 with the pedicels arising from the same point on the axis. 

 Leaves, generally triquetrous, and scattered more or less 

 irregularly around the branches. 



Glyptostrobus is one of the newer genera, and one that 

 we are much inclined to receive with distrust, as it is quite 

 too closely allied to Taxodium. Time and further inves- 

 tigation will determine its right to the distinction, and as 

 there is considerable difference of opinion on the subject 

 at present, we have accordingly adopted Endlicher's name, 

 although disagreeing with Gordon in the classification of 

 Gr. pendulus. 



Endlicher has created the name from the handsome sur- 

 face of the strobiles, presenting a curious embossed appear- 

 ance, which is not of so marked a character in the Taxo- 

 dium. It is derived from glypho, embossed, and strobus, 

 a strobile or cone. 



This genus is composed of two species, both natives of 

 China, and equally beautiful. 



1. G, heterophyllllS, Endlicher. Syn. Taxodium nu- 

 ciferum, Brongniart. T. Japonicum, Denhardt, etc. 

 Leaves, from 3 to 8 lines long, very variable in shape 

 and position, from ovate, obtuse, to scale-formed, acute, 

 appressed and imbricated, or spreading and recurved, 

 somewhat bifarious, or scattered around the shoots, alter- 



