THE TRUE CYPRESSES. 97 



the upright, only produce plants with a tapering or conical- 

 shaped head ; and this may have led CaBsalpin, and other 

 ancient writers, to consider one the male, and the other the 

 female Cypress. 



CUPRESSUS SEMPERVIRENS MONSTROSA, Hovt, the Thllja-like 



Common Cypress. 



Syn. Cupressus sempervirens thujsefolia, Oarriere. 

 thujaeformis, Parker. 



thujseoides, Low. 



A tine tall variety of the common upright Cypress, with its 

 branches strictly erect, and the branchlets flat, 'and regularly 

 placed horizontally in two rows ; leaves scale-formed, regularly 

 imbricated, and with the smaller spray very much resembling 

 those of the common Arbor- Vita?, but not near so dense. 



Cupressus sempervirens variegata, Knight. 



Syn. C. fastigiata variegata, Hort, 



This only differs in having some of its shoots and leaves of a 

 pale yellow or white colour intermixed. 



No. 15. Cupressus torulosa, Don, the Twisted or Bhotan 



Cypress. 



Syn. Cupressus Cashmeriana, Hort. 

 Nepalensis, Loudon. 



pendula, Griffith. 



Leaves very small, ovate, scale-formed, smooth, regularly and 

 closely imbricated in four rows, or slightly spreading, acute, 

 nore distant, much longer, and very glaucous, with a yellow 

 hit on the young plants, but of a more greenish hue, with a 

 inge of gray on the adult ones. Branches spreading, alter- 

 late, or irregularly placed along the stem ; lateral ones short, 

 mmerous, mostly in two rows, and slightly bent downwards ; 

 ranchlets, drooping on each side, and considerably subdivided ; 

 rom two to six inches long, closely covered by numerous oval- 

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