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growing compact shrub with glaucous green imbricate foliage. 

 It is said to be quite hardy in England. 



17. GLYPTOSTROBUS. 



Deciduous or at least not truly evergreen trees or shrubs. 

 Leaves scattered, small, variable, either imbricated or -spreading. 

 Flowers monoecious. Scales of the conoid fruit leathery, with 

 two seeds at the base of each. The generic name is from 

 <y\v7rT6$) carved or engraved, and crr/so/Soy, a cone, in reference 

 to the embossed scales. There are two species described, both 

 natives of China, and one extending to Japan. 



1 . G. pendulus, syn. Taxodium distichum var. pendulum, 

 and T. Sinense. A small tree with pendulous branches, exces- 

 sively slender deciduous branchlets, and appressed or spreading 

 very small linear-acute bright green leaves. Cones small, oblong 

 or ovate, with pointed scales. A beautiful hardy tree from North 

 China and Japan. 



2. G. heterophylluSi syn. Taxodium nuciferum, etc. Chi- 

 nese Water Pine. A small tree with variable closely imbricated 

 scale-like or linear and spreading glaucous green leaves. Cones 

 oblong, scales unequal, with a recurved point. A native of 

 China, rather tender in this country. 



18. TAXODIUM. 



Deciduous monoecious trees with distichous leaves and small 

 globular or oval cones composed of peltate woody scales with 2 

 seeds at the base of each. All the known forms of this genus 

 are usually referred to one species, a native of the United States 

 of North America. The name is derived from ra'fos, the Yew, 

 and eiSos-, resemblance, referring to the disposition of the 

 foliage. 



1. T. distichum. Deciduous or Bald Cypress. A large tree 

 with slender often deciduous ultimate branchlets, and soft 

 linear-acute distichous crowded leaves from 6 to 9 lines long. 

 Cone close and hard, about 1 inch in diameter. This is an ex- 

 ceedingly beautiful and graceful tree, and of the few hardy 

 deciduous Conifers the one most frequently planted. It is very 

 variable in habit and size of foliage, and some of the forms have 

 received various names either as distinct species or varieties of 

 this. The shrub called T. distichum pendulum belongs to the 

 preceding genus. 



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