CHAP. CXUf. 



*t I. T. DI'STICIIUM Rich. 



CUPRE 



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The two-ranked-/<?aved Taxodium, or Deciduous 

 Cypress. 



Identification. Rich, in Ann. Mus., xvi. p. 298. ; Mt^m. sur les Conif., p. 53. 143. ; Lamb. Pin. 



Synonymcs.' Cupressus disticha Lin. Sp. PI., 1422., Hort. Cliff., p. 499., Gron. Virg., p. 153., 

 Michx. Fl. Bar. Amer., 2. p. 208., Arb., 3. p. 4., N. Amcr. Syl., 3. p. 197., Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 

 2 p. 645., Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836 ; C. americana Cat. Carol., 1. p. 11. : C. virgini&na Comm. Hort., 

 1 p 113 Pluk Aim., p. 125.; Schubertm disticha Mirb., Laws. Man., p. 392. ; bald Cypress, 

 Cypress, Amer. ; Cvpres de l'Am<5rique, Cypres chauve, Fr. ; zweyzeilige Cypresse Ger. 



Envravines Rich. Conif., t. 10. : Michx. Arb., 3. t. 1., North Amer. Syl., 3. ; Catesb. Car., t. 11. ; 

 Comm. Hort., 1. t.59. ; Pluk. Aim., t. 85. f. 6.; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., t. 63. ; our fig. 2335.; and the 

 plates of this tree in our last Volume. 



Spec. Cfiar., 8?c. Leaves 2-rowed, flat, deciduous. Male flowers leafless and 

 panic-led. Cones somewhat globose. (Willd.) A lofty deciduous tree; 

 a native of North America. Introduced before 1640. 



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T. d. 1 patens Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., v. p. 323. Leaves approximate, 

 and strictly 2-rowed. This is the most common form. 



T. d. 2 nutans, 1. c. ; T. d. pendula Loud. Hort. Brit. ; the long-leaved 

 deciduous Cypress ; has the leaves much longer and drooping, but 

 more remote and thinner. There is a tree of this variety in Lod- 

 diges's arboretum, of which figs. 2336. and 2337. are portraits ; Jig. 

 2336. being taken when the fronds or deciduous shoots are first 

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