THE TRUE CYPRESSES. S9 



Coteessus Lawsoniana minima, ZTori., the Miuiature Lawson'a 



Cypress. 

 Syn. Cupressus Lawsoniana pygmsea, Hovt. 



A curious, glaucous, pigmy variety, only suited for planting 

 on rockwork. 



CcjPBESSus Lawsoniana pendula alba, Paul, the Pendulous 

 Lawson's Cypress. 

 A fine graceful variety, with pendulous branches, and 

 branchlets of a beautiful, shining, silvery hue. 



No, 10, Cupressus Lusitanica, Miller, the Cedar of Goa. 

 Syn. Cupressus glauca, Lamarck. 

 pendula, Heritier. 

 glauca pendula, Hort. 



„ tristis, GarrUre. 

 Lusitanica pendula, Hort. 



„ patula, Tournefort. 

 Sinensis, Lee. 



pendula, Hort. 

 „ glauca, VoM Houtte. 

 Libani glauca, Knight. 

 Goensis, Hort. 

 Lusitanica elegans, Rinz. 

 „ tristis, Carri^re. 



Leaves imbricated, opposite, four-rowed, acute, glaucous, 

 keeled, and marked with a hollow gland on the back, stem 

 clasping and adhering, except at the points, broad at the base, 

 and tapering to an awl-shaped point. Branches spreading, 

 divided, flexuose, horizontal, turned down at the points, scat- 

 tered on the stem, and rather distant ; smaller ones branching 

 out, and nearly pendent. Branchlets four-sided when young, 

 but rounded when old, crowded, forked, spreading, incurved, 

 pendulous, and very numerous. Cones globose, three-quarters 

 of an inch in diameter, covered with a glaucous graj' powder, 



