THE TRUE CYPRESSES. 



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Cupressus Lawsoniana minima, Hort., the Miniature Lawson's 



Cypress. 

 Syn. Cupressus Lawsoniana pygmsea, Hort. 



A curious, glaucous, pigmy variety, only suited for planting 

 on rockwork. 



Cupressus Lawsontana pendula alp.a, Paul, the Pendulous 



Lawson's Cypress. 



A fine graceful variety, with pendulous branches, and 

 branchlets of a beautiful, shining, silvery hue. 



No. 10. Cupressus Lusitanica, Miller, the Cedar of Goa, 



Syn. Cupressus glauca, Lamarck. 

 pendula, Heritiev. 

 glauca pendula, Hort. 



tristis, Carriere. 

 Lusitanica pendula, Hort. 



patula, Tournefort. 



Sinensis, Lee. 



pendula, Hort. 

 glauca, Van Houtte. 

 Libani glauca, Knight. 

 Goensis, Hort. 

 Lusitanica elegans, Rinz. 

 tristis, Carriere. 



Leaves imbricated, opposite, four-rowed, acute, glaucous, 

 J keeled, and marked with a hollow gland on the back, stem 

 clasping and adhering, except at the points, broad at the base, 

 and tapering to an awl-shaped point. Branches spreading, 

 divided, flexuose, horizontal, turned down at the points, scat- 

 tered on the stem, and rather distant ; smaller ones branching 

 out, and nearly pendent. Branchlets four-sided when young, 

 but rounded when old, crowded, forked, spreading, incurved, 

 pendulous, and very numerous. Cones globose, three-quarters 

 of an inch in diameter, covered with a glaucous gray powder, 



