150 CYPRESS. YEW. DEODAR 



Cupressus sempervirens, L. Roman Cypress (Figs. 5-5, 

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

 Oftener seen in the fastigiate variety (see p. IS-i). 



Several other species of Cupressus are cultivated in 

 gardens. 



CD CJ Leaves not scale-like nor imhricated. 

 [For {s,s) g Evergreens with narrow^ linear, or 



acicular, dark glossy-green leaves. 



Jf Leaves isolated and extended in 

 flattened fan-like horizoiital spray. 

 Bark red-hrown and scaly. Seed 

 half immersed in crimson fleshy 

 pulp (" Yew herry "). 



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

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

 ii'regular 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. 



^'H 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, 



