TAXODIUM AND GLYPTOSTROBUS 89 
Cupressus virginiana, foliis Acacia deciduis Hermann, Cat. Hort. 
Lugd. Bat. 207; J. Commelin, Hort. Amst. i. 118, t. 59; 
Boerhaave, Ind. Alt. Hort. Lugd. Bat. ii. 181. 
Cupressus virginiana foliis Acacie cornigere paribus et deciduis, 
Plukenet, Phyt. 85, f. 6; Alm. Bot. 125. 
Cupressus virginiana, foliis Abietis mollibus atque deciduis, Breyn, 
Prod. Sec. 40 [89]; ed. 2, 59. 
Cupressus foliis distiche patentibus, Linn. Hort. Cliffort. 449; 
Clayton, Flor. Virgin. 119; Royen, Flor. Leyden. Prod. 88. 
Cupressus americana foliis deciduis, Romans, Nat. Hist. Florida, 25. 
The early history of the Chinese plant is somewhat involved, 
but it is certain that the plant spoken of by Plukenet (Amalthewm, 
p. 125) as ‘‘ Juniperi folia Arbuscula Cheusanensis Conifera, foliis 
varlis Cupressi squammosis, et Juniperinis ” is Juniperus chinensis of 
Linneus, as is shown by Plukenet’s specimen in Herb. Sloane 
xeiii. f. 214. 
Endlicher includes two species in his genus Glyptostrobus, 
G. heterophyllus and G. pendulus, the latter with slender pendulous 
branchlets and leaves only half as large as those of G. hetero- 
phyllus, acuminate and approximate. Endlicher says G. pendulus 
t synon 
given under G, heterophyllus, must be excluded from Endlicher’s 
on. 
In herbaria where complete specimens of the Chinese (Glypto- 
strobus) and of the Florida plant (Tawodiwm) occur there is not the | 
alter in disposition, size, and form, and in which the direction of 
the branches (habit) varies greatly from that supposed to be typical. 
In reference to this subject it is desirable to quote what Sargent 
says as to the variety, 
Alluding first to the species, Sargent (p. 152) says of Taxodium 
distichum: ‘The deciduous lateral branchlets are three or four 
spreading branchlets are linear-lanceolate, apiculate, from one-hal 
to three-quarters of an inch in length, about one-twelfth of an inch 
in width, and light bright yellow-green on both surfaces or ; 
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