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Spec. Char., $c. Branchlets quadrangular. Leaves imbricated in 4 rows, 

 obtuse, adpressed, convex. Cones globose ; scales mutic. Branches 

 straight. ( IVilld.) An evergreen tree, a native of the south of Europe. 

 Introduced before 1548. 



Varieties. 



i C. s. 1 stricta Mill. Diet., Cypres male, JFV., has the branches upright, 

 and closely pressed towards the trunk ; and is the most common 

 form of the species. ( See the plate of C. sempervirens in our last 

 Volume.) 



1 C. s. 2 horizontalis Mill. Diet.; C. horizontal N. Du Ham., 3. p. 6.; 

 C. expansa Hort. Par. ; has the branches spreading. (See the plate 

 of this tree in our last Volume.) In the Nouv. Du Hamtl, it is stated 

 that there is a very fine specimen of a horizontal cypress, which is 

 quite a distinct species, received from the Levant, in the Botanic 

 Garden at Montpelier, which has borne seeds, from which young 

 plants quite true to the parent have been raised. There is a tree 

 in the Horticultural Society's Garden, which is named C. s. hori- 

 zontalis, 12 ft. high, and received about 1825, from Godefroy, near 

 Paris ; and another named C. horizontalis, received from Audibert's 

 Nursery, in the south of France, also in 1825, but which is only 6ft. 

 high. Mr. Gordon considers them to be quite distinct ; but they 

 appear to us to be the same. There is, also, in the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, a cypress, received from Messrs. Audibert in 

 1835, under the name of C. expansa; but we do not know whether 

 it is the C. expansa Hort. Par., and it is at present too small, for us 

 to determine whether it is the same as M. Audibert's C. horizontalis. 

 Description. The evergreen cypress is a flame-shaped, tapering, cone-like 

 tree, with upright branches growing close to the trunk, and resembling in 

 general appearance the Lombardy poplar; but, even in its native country, 

 rarely rising above the height of 50 ft. or 60 ft., though it is sometimes found 

 much higher. Its frond-like branchlets are dichotomous, and are closely covered 

 with very small imbricated leaves, which, when old, become more distinct, 

 diverging, and sharp-pointed : they are of a yellowish green, smooth, shining, 

 and persistent, remaining on the tree for 5 or 6 years. The male catkins are 

 yellowish, about 3 lines long, and very numerous. The female catkins are much 

 fewer, and of a roundish-oblong form. The cone, or nut, which was called by 



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