ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 



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globular, nearly sessile, ^-^ inch across; scales 8-10 with a short, obtuse, 

 inconspicuous boss. Himalayas. — Introduced to Great Britain in 1824 by 

 Wallich. 



Var. Comeyana, Carr. (C. Corneyana, Knight). Branches and branchlets 

 pendulous; the brancldet-systems not distinctly distichous. — 

 Introduced before 1850. 



9. C. fimebris, Endl. (C. pendula, Lambert). Moxjening 

 C. Fig. 34. Tree to 60 feet tall, with wide-spreading, pendu- 

 lous branches and branchlets; branchlets flattened; trunk with 

 brown smooth bark: leaves deltoid-ovate, acute, 

 light green, often slightly spreading at the apex: 

 cones short-peduncled, globose, H~/'2 iiich across; 

 scales 8, with a short-pointed boss. China. — Intro- 

 duced in 1850 to Great Britain by Fortune. 



A related species is C. cashmeriana, Royle {C. 

 torulosa var. kashtniriajia, Kent. C. fimebris var. 

 glauca. Mast.). Kashmir C. Tree with ascending 

 branches and pendulous branclilets; branchlets 

 compressed: lateral leaves spreading: cones dark 

 brown, ellipsoidal, nearly 3^ inch across; scales 10 

 with triangular reflexed umbo. Kashmir. — Intro- 

 duced about 1862. 



3. CHAMiECYPARIS, Spach. CYPRESS 



Evergreen trees with scaly or fissured bark; the 

 leading shoots nodding; branchlets usually flattened 

 and pinnately ramified: leaves scale-like (only in 

 the juvenile state subulate), opposite and decussate, 

 densely clothing the branchlets: flowers monoecious, 

 small; the fertile ones inconspicuous, globose; stami- 

 nate yellow or red, oblong, often conspicuous by 

 their abundance: cones small, globular, with 6-11 bracts, each bearing 2, 

 rarely up to 5, winged seeds, ripening the first season. (Apparently an 

 adaptation from Pliny's Chamjecyparissus, "ground-cypress," derived from 

 Greek chamai, on the ground, and kuparissos, cypress, though its species 

 are not lower but generally decidedly taller than the true cjT^resses.) — Six 

 species in North America and Asia. Closely allied to Cupressus, which differs 

 in its larger cones maturmg the second year, the bracts containing 4 or more 

 seeds, and in its quadrangular branches and minutely denticulate leaves. 



Cj-presses are valuable timber trees in their native countries and belong, 

 with their numerous garden forms, to our most important ornamental 

 conifers. 



Cupressus 

 funebris. 



