376 



ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BIUTANNICUM. 



663. C. O. stricta. 



1st edit., vol. vi. ; and our^g. 663.) has the shoots upright, and the 

 general habit as fastigiate as that of a Lombardy poplar. It was 

 discovered in a bed of seedlings in Messrs. Ronald's Nursery, about 

 1825, and forms a very distinct and desirable variety. 

 C. O. 3 pendula Lodd. Cat. has drooping branches. A very marked 

 variety of this kind, which was selected from a bed of seedlings by 

 General Monckton, is said to be in the collection of thorns at Somer- 

 ford Hall. 



664. C. O. rcghiae. 



C. O. 4 regince Hort. Queen Mary's Thorn. (The plate of the tree in 

 Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. vi.; and ourjtfg. 864) The parent tree is in 



