150 CYPRESS. YEW. DEODAR 



Cupressus sempervirens, L. Eoman Cypress (Figs. 55, 

 64). A Mediterranean species attaining 100 feet or so. 

 Oftener seen in the fastigiate variety (see p. 134). 



Several other species of Cupressus are cultivated in 

 gardens. 



O7 Leaves not scale-like nor imbricated. 



r 153 1 Evergreens with narrow, linear , or 



acicular, dark glossy-green leaves. 



Jt Leaves isolated and extended in 

 flattened fan-like horizontal spray. 

 Baric red-brown and scaly. Seed 

 half immersed in crimson fleshy 

 pulp ("Yew berry"}. 



Taxus baccata, L. Yew (Fig. 65). The Yew may attain 

 a height of 30 50 or even more feet, but has then a very 

 irregular lobed or bushy crown ; some forms are more or 

 less conical from a rounded base up to 8 10 feet high. 



Foliage dark and dense, with the linear leaves arranged 

 in a pectinate manner. Bark grey-reddish-brown, exfoliating 

 in scales : trunk channelled. Seed single, slaty-brown or 

 brown, exserted from a fleshy scarlet arillus. 



Old Yews are widely spreading with more or less 

 terraced foliage, and numerous other shapes are assumed 

 by varietal and exposed forms of this slow-growing tree. 

 Old stems are channelled and the much branched crown 

 irregularly ovoid-conic to pyramidal, with exceedingly 

 dense foliage. 



JfJt Leaves stiff and acicular, in tufts 

 of 50 or more scattered along the 

 branches, which droop at the ends. 

 Cones large. 



Cedrus Deodara. Deodar (Fig. 66). A Himalayan 

 tree over 200 feet high, but lower in England. Crown 

 conical [in ordinary specimens in British gardens]. The 

 branches radiate but are not whorled, and rapidly ramify, 



