26 SUPPLEMENT TO THE PINETUM. 



This kind is called " Tchugatskoy" (the Savin, or strong- 

 scented Fir) by the Russian settlers on the Island of Sitcha, 

 and about Nootka Sound, and was first introduced into England 

 in 1851, through the Russian garden at St. Petersburgh, under 

 the improper name of Thuiopsis Borealis, a name given to it by 

 the late Dr. Fischer. 



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 CuPRESSUS SEMPERViRENs MONSTROSA, Hort, the Thuja-likc 

 Common Cypress. 

 Syn. Cupressus sempervirens thujasfolia, Carriere. 

 „ „ thujseformis, Parker. 



„ „ thujaeoides, Low. 



A fine tall variety of the common upright Cypress, with its 

 b'ranches strictly erect, and the branchlets flat, and regularly 

 placed horizontally in two rows ; leaves, scale-formed, regularly 

 imbricated, and with the smaller spray very much resembling 

 those of the common Arbor- Vitge, but not near so dense. 



Cupressus torulosa, Don, the Twisted or Bhoton Cypress. 



This tree is caUed " GuUa," " Gulrai," and " Kullain" by 

 the mountaineers about Simla, all variations in their vernacular 

 for Divine Tree, and according to Koyle, it is called " Shuj- 

 rut-ulhue-yut" (tree of life), and that its berries and branchlets 

 are said to be a cure for all diseases, but that the profanation of 

 its divine timber by any one to a useful purpose of economy 

 would be sure to bring down upon the individual sudden 

 death.* The Bhotiyas also hold it sacred, and call it " Surroo," 

 or " Soorah-vyu" (name divine), while on the other hand the 

 people of Kumaoon, who seem to look more to temporal than 



* Major Madden relates, wbile travelling in Kooloo and the Ladakh 

 country, some of his people had begun to strip the cypress trees of their 

 dry branches for fuel, when one of the conductors of his caravan came to 

 him in great agitation, and implored him to command the men to desist, as 

 the trees, he said, were sacred to the deities of the elements, who would 

 be sure to revenge any injury done to them, by visiting them with heavy 

 gnows and bad weather on their journey. 



