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have been produced. It has, again and again, been sent home as a fine 

 new species'by travellers and collectors, who may bave chanced to find it 

 in some new or before unknown habitat in the north-western regions ; 

 and, consequently, somewhat altered in appearance, but time and 

 experience wiU eventually correct all tbis ; and many of tbe said-to-be 

 species of Californian Cypresses will hereafter have to be referred to 

 this or Macrocarpa. 



Attenuata, Glandulosa, Goveniana, Mac-Nahhiana, and Nivea, are 

 at best but alter egos of California gracilis. 



There are also many forms or varieties of it, such as Fastigiata, 

 (fastigiate-branched,) Nana, (dwarf,) Pendula, (pendent-brancbed,) 

 and Variegata, (variegated- leaved,) aU useful and beautiful as orna- 

 mental shrubs. 



CUPRESSUS CorNEYANA: Comey's C}T)ress. 



This is a Chinese kind, and forms a very graceful little tree, a dozen 

 or a dozen-and-a-haK feet in height ; having bright green and more or 

 less glaucous foliage, and slender drooping branches. It is much used 

 by the orientals in tbeir burial-grounds and around their temples ; it 

 is the " Weeping Cypress " of the natives ; and a very useful and 

 beautiful shrub or small tree for ornamental purposes in this country. 



CUPRESSUS ExcELSA: The Lofty C}T^)ress. 



A native of Guatemala, where it is often found one hundred feet 

 high ; beautiful and delicate, but it requires the best soils and warmest 

 localities in Albion's Isles to ensure its growth or development ; yet, 

 where conditions favourable to its growth can be afforded to it, useful 

 would it be for its ornament and profitable for its timber. 



CUPRESSUS FUNEBRIS : The Funereal Cypress. 



This kind is of Cliinese origin, and, doubtless, has been imported 

 into that coim^try from India. I have no objection to the name, seeing 

 that any pendent-branched Cypress may appropriately enough be 

 termed " Funereal " or Funebris; but that this kind (at best but a quasi 

 of Torulosa, more probably a hybrid, or, perchance, a seminal variety ; 

 when its history is published, or its character determined in this 

 country) should retain this name, or be classed as a species I cannot 

 \mderstand : I care, however, but little, knoA\^ng, as I already know, that 

 it will never be of any value for its timber, and of but little 

 for its beauty as an ornamental plant in this country ; for, from all 

 that I have seen of it, in the best soils and warmest localities, even in 

 the " sunny south," I find it much too tender and delicate in 

 constitution for a severe English winter. 



