96 CDPRESSUS, OR 



plants, and persistent. Cones large, globular, one inch or more 

 in diameter, with numerous large, woody, angular scales, slightly 

 convex and mucronate in the centre, and separating when the 

 seeds are ripe. Seeds numerous under each scale, yellowish 

 brown, in-egularly angular, and covered with a thin membran- 

 ous skin. 



An evergreen tree, growing in its native country 50 or 60 

 feet high, with all its branches growing in an upward direc- 

 tion, and closely pressed to the stem, like those of the Lom- 

 bardy Poplar.. 



The Upright or Common Cypress is a native of Greece, Asia 

 Minor, the south of Europe, and Persia, and cultivated in all the 

 countries along the Mediterranean, and throughout the whole 

 of Italy, from the foot of the Alps to Calabria, as well as in 

 Sicily and Turkey. There are the following varieties :— 



CUPEESSUS SEMPEEVIBENS HORIZONTALIS, Miller, the 

 Horizontal Cypress. 



Syn. C. expansa, Audibert. 

 „ C. Orientalis, Hort. 



C. mas, Ocesalpin. 

 „ C. horizontalis, Bu Hamel. 

 C. fastigiata horizontalis, B.C. 



This differs in no way from the upright kind, except in its 

 manner of growth, — it having its branches disposed in a hori- 

 zontal direction, and very spreading, and only grows to about 

 half the height of the upright kind. 



It is found indigenous in Candia, Bithynia, and Persia^ 

 mixed with the upright kind; and some writers consider 

 it a distinct species, but the question as to whether the upright 

 and spreading Cypresses are forms of the same, or two distinct 

 species, is now well ascertained, and that both are only one 

 species, for seeds of the horizontal variety will produce plants 

 varying in shape and appearance from the spreading to the 

 most upright form of the plant, while seedlings raised from 



