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Cupressus arizonica, Greene. Arizona Cypress. 

 California, Arizona, New Mexico. 1891. This recently intro- 

 duced conifer is of bushy, compact habit, with wide-spreading 

 branches, and closely imbricated foliage. The cones are 

 nearly spherical, with a small umbo to each scale. The 

 handsome form and colour and the neat disposition of its 

 foliage will gain for this species many admirers once it 

 becomes better known. It has been referred to C. Benthami, 

 a tree of very uncertain identification. 



C. funebris, Endlicher. {Synonyms: C. pendula, 

 Staunton ; C. amcena, Karl Koch.) China, Sikkim. 1846. 

 This is unfortunately a conifer that cannot be depended on in 

 point of hardihood for indiscriminate planting in any but the 

 more favoured and maritime parts of the British Isles. It is 

 remarkable in presenting striking changes in its aspect during 

 the various stages of growth, and at the same time needle-like 

 leaves resembling those of some forms of the so-called Re- 

 tinispora, and scale-like, closely appressed foliage may be 

 found on the same tree. When young it is usually of com- 

 pact and upward growth, but with advancing years it becomes 

 gradually gracefully drooping. On young trees the leaves 

 are distant, linear, and decidedly glaucous, whereas in older 

 specimens they are oval, and closely imbricated usually in 

 four rows, or both forms may occur at the older stages. The 

 cones are spherical and half an inch in diameter. 



C. Gove ni an a, Gordon. {Synonyms: C. calif ornica^ 

 Carriere ; C, cornuta?) California. 1846. When seen in a 

 flourishing condition, which, however, is rarely the case in 

 this country, this is a pretty and interesting conifer, and par- 

 ticularly during the early spring months when laden with 

 pollen catkins. It usually presents a bushy and dense habit 

 of growth, with upright spreading branches, and is somewhat 

 after the style of a dwarfed globose specimen of the better 

 known C. macrocarpa. The fragrant leaves are small, scale- 

 like, and bright green, closely arranged, broad at the base, and 

 pointed. Cones prettily tinted, dark brownish, streaked with 

 lighter colour, and furnished with four horn-like projections at 



