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the upright, only produce plants with a tapering or conical- 

 shaped head; and this may have led Csesalpin, and other 

 ancient writers, to consider one the male, and the other the 

 female Cypress. 



CUPKESSUS SEMPEEVIRENS MONSTROSA, Hovt, the Thuja-like 

 Common Cypress. 

 Syn. Cupressus sempervirens thujsefolia, Garrwre. 

 „ „ thuJBeformis, Parker. 



„ thujseoides. Low. 



A line tall variety of the common upright Cypress, with its 

 branches strictly erect, and the branchlets flat, 'and regularly 

 placed horizontally in two rows ; leaves scale-formed, regularly 

 imbricated, and with the smaller spray very much resembling 

 those of the common Arbor- Vitse, but not near so dense. 



Cupressus sempervirens variegata. Knight. 



Syn. C. fastigiata variegata, Hort. 



This only differs in having some of its shoots and leaves of a 

 pale yeUow or white colour intermixed. 



No. 15. Cupressus toeulosa, Bon, the Twisted or Bhotan 



Cypress. 

 Syn. Cupressus Cashmeriana, Hort. 

 „ „ Nepalensis, Loudon. 



„ „ pendula, Oriffijth. 



Leaves very small, ovate, scale-formed, smooth, regularly and 

 closely imbricated in four rows, or slightly spreading, acute, 

 more distant, much longer, and very glaucous, with a yeUow 

 tint on the young plants, but of a more greenish hue, with a 

 tinge of gray on the adult ones. Branches spreading, alter- 

 nate, or in-egularly placed along the stem ; lateral ones short, 

 numerous, mostly in two rows, and slightly bent downwards ; 

 branchlets, drooping on each side, and considerably subdivided ; 

 from two to six inches long, closely covered by numerous oval- 



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