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numerous straight, small, slender spray, covered with obtuse 

 pointed leaves, more or less spreading at their points, and rather 

 distantly placed, especially towards the base of the branchlets. 

 This kind is found growing in moist situations, along the 

 banks of mountain streams, in the Shasta country, in Northern 

 California, and in the Oregon territory. 



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 CupRESSUs CoRNEYA-NA, Knif/ht, Mr. Corney's Chiuese 

 Cypress. 

 Syn. Cuprcssus gracilis, Ilort. 

 „ „ cernua, Hort. 



„ „ pcndula, Staunton. 



',, Juniperus Corneyana, Hort. 

 f, y, Chinensis Corneyana,* Gordon. 



„ „ gracilis, Hort. 



Leaves, scale-formed, in opposite pairs, very small, stem- 

 clasping at the base, somewhat oval in shape, more or less 

 pointed, rounded on the outside, with a slight depression in the 

 centre, and closely imbricated in four rows ; bright green on 

 the adult branchlets, while those on the younger shoots are 

 more acute, transparent on the margins, and with a slight 

 glaucous appearance ; branches, slender, alternate, and spread- 

 ing, with the lower ones somewhat drooping, while those on 

 the upper part of the plant are more or less ascending, and all 

 of a reddish-brown colour ; branchlets, long, slender, more or 

 less pendent, cylindrical, quite straight, numerous, regularly 

 two-rowed, and thickly covered with small, bright, glossy, 

 green scale-like leaves, sometimes a little glaucous in appear- 

 ance on the young shoots and shaded parts; cones, globular, 

 mostly solitary, and terminal on the shorter braAchlets, from 



* I have to thank Mr. Eobert Pince, of the great Exeter Nursery, for 

 cone-bearing specimens of this Cypress, and for first drawing my attention 

 to having placed it among the Cypress-like Junipers in the Pinetum ; a 

 circumstance which arose fi'om tlie plant never having previously produced 

 cones in EnglanH, and to the neglect of that infallible rule, " Wherefore 

 by their fruits ye shall know them." 



