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DESCEIPTIO. 



Jrho?^ ramosa, procera, altitudine 50 pedum, et ultra. Rami sparsi, inordinatl, flexuoso-patentes. Ramuli 

 incuryati mimerosissimi, junioribus quadrangulis, foliis undlque tectis; adultlorlbus teretibus. Folia 

 squamiformia, subamplexicaulla, basi lata, sursum attenuata, subalata, diu persistentia ; jmiiora 

 quadrifariam imbricata, glauca, dorso glandula reslnosa concava longitudinaliter exarata; se?iiora 

 - remotiuscula, vix Imbricata, rigida, demum arida, rufa. Amenta mascida uumerosa, ovata, obtuse 

 octano-ula, tcrmlnalia, solitaria, c viridl-lutea, lineas fere duas longa: Squamae circiter 20 convexo- 

 concav£E, lutea3, apice extus subviridi. Amentafceminea solitaria, foliis clrcumcincta, depressa, mmuta. 

 Strobilus ovato-globosus, rugosulus, mmicatus, magnltudme Baccte Tnmi spinas^, farina cassia 

 conspcrsus. Squama octo angulatse, mucronlbus elongatis, reflexis. Scmina gilva. 



The branch represented In Plate 42, was from a tree growing in my conservatory, where it produced 

 some hundreds of cones when not more than twelve feet high, the air of Wiltshire being much 

 too cold for It unless protected In winter ; yet I have seen It at the Marquis of Blandford's, at White 

 Knights, flourishing all the year without any shelter, except that of other trees keeping the wind from 

 it, and thriving equally well as with me at Boyton when under cover. Although we are Informed in 

 the Hortus Kewensis, from Ray's Letters, that this tree was cultivated In England so long ago as the 

 the year 1,683, yet it Is still very scarce ; nor have I met with it any where but at White Knights, where 

 there are several young trees of It now in a very flourishing state ; but as Mr. Lee at Hammersmith, of 

 whom I procured mine some years ago, had at that time several more for sale, I should suppose that It 

 must be In other collections. Brotcro Informs us, that in Portugal this tree grows much faster than the 

 common cypress (C sempervlrcns), but Is of shorter duration, and Its timber of a softer texture. Miller's 

 account of this species Is as follows: - The Third sort (C. lusltanica) is at present pretty rare In the 

 English gardens, though of late years there have been many plants raised here, but this sort Is not 

 quite so hardy, I fear, as the common cypress, for the plants are frequently killed, or greatly injured, 

 in severe winters, and In the hard frost In 1 ^40, there was a large tree of this kind entirely killed In the 

 gardens of his Grace the Duke of Bichmond, at Goodwood In Sussex, which had been growing there 

 several years; and in the year 1/62 many large trees were killed. There are great plenty of these 

 trees growing at a place called Busaco, near Coimbra, in Portugal, where this tree Is called the Cedar of 

 Busac^'o ; and there it grows to be a timber tree, so that from thence the seeds may be easily procured. 

 This tree grows naturally at Goa, from whence It was first brought to Portugal, where It has succeeded 

 and been propagated; formerly there were some trees of this sort growing In. the Bishop of London's 

 Garden, at Fulhara, where it passed under the title of Cedar of Goa, by which it was sent from thence 

 to the Leyden Garden with that name." Millers Diet, I. c. 



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EXPLANATION OF TAB. 43. 



A. Male Catkin magnified. • 



B. Scale of the same. 



C. Female Catkin magnified. 



D. Germen and stigma magnified. 



e. Scale of a half grown cone with the seeds. 

 F. One of the seeds magnified. 

 g. Ripe Cone. h. Scale of the same. i. Seed. 



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