218 CUPRESSUS NOOTKATENSIS. 



branches spreading, often ascending at the tips and covered with smooth 

 brown bark. Branchlets stoutish, distichous and alternate, their rami- 

 fication similar and three or four times repeated. Leaves in decussate- 

 pairs ; on vigorous branchlets, ovate, acute, free at the apex, O25 0*5 inch 

 long ; on the younger lateral branchlets broadly subulate, imbricated or 

 concrescent, one-eighth of an inch long, light glaucous green ; where 

 shaded, dark lustrous green. Staminate flowers small, oblong, composed 

 of four five pairs of pale sulphur-yellow stamens. Strobiles sub-globose, 

 about 0'5 inch in diameter, consisting of six eight scales each with a 

 pointed umbo and bearing two four seeds. 



Cupressus nootkatensis, Don in Lambert's Genus Finns, II. 18 (1824). Hooker, 

 Fl. Amer. Bor. II. 165 (nutkaensis). Hoopes, Evergreens, 345. Gordon, 

 Pinet. ed. II. 94. Lawson, Pinet. Brit. II. 199, t. 34. Masters in Journ. R. 

 Hort. Soc. XIV. 206 ; and Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXI. 352. Sargent, Silva N. 

 Amer. X. 115, t. 530. 



Champecyparis nutkaensis, Spacli, Hist. Veg. Phan. XI. 333 (1842). Endlicher, 

 Synops. Conif. 62 (1847). Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II, 127. Parlatore, D. C. 

 Prodr. XVI. 465. Syme in Gard. Chron. XI. (1879) p. 560. Beissner, Nadel- 

 holzk. 79, with figs. 



Thujopsis borealis, Fischer, ex Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. I, 113. 



Eng. Nootka Sound Cypress. Amer. Yellow Cypress, Sitka Cypress. Fr. 

 Cypres de Nutka. Gemi. Nutka-Lel)ensbaum. Ital. Cipressa di Nootka. 



Although as long and almost as assiduously cultivated in this country 

 as the closely allied species Cupressus Laicsoniana, G. nootkatensis has 

 shown but little tendency to sport into abnormal forms; it has for 

 the most part preserved under cultivation a constancy in form and 

 colour as remarkable, relatively speaking, as the ever varying divergencies 

 occurring in C. Laicsoniana. The following are the most noteworthy 

 varieties occasionally met with in British gardens. 



Varieties distinguished Inj liabit. 

 var. compacta. 



Of dwarf dense growth, the short trunk much divided and much 

 branched, the branchlet systems smaller and less flaccid than in the 

 type. 



var. gracilis. 



A small tree or shrub, usually the latter, much branched and of 

 globose outline ; the branehlets and terminal growths more slender than 

 in the type. 



var. pendula vera. 



In this form the primary branches are more distant, and with their 

 appendages all more or less depressed, more slender and more . elongated, 

 and occasionally quite pendulous. 



Varieties distinguished by colour. 

 var. argenteo-variegata . 



In this variety many of the youngest branchlet systems or parts of 

 them are cream-white, affording a strong contrast to the dark green of 

 the other parts. 





