238 A MAOTAL OF THE CONIFEEJE. 



have once covered the ground sloping towards the south, on which 

 part of the town is built.* 



The three Cypresses of Michael Angelo are the fastigiate form; the 

 Cypress of Sorama and the Arbre de Montpellier are the horizontal 

 variety. 



Oupressus thyoides.! — A tree of variable height and of pyramidal 

 and dense habit. The trunk is slender and tapering, sometimes 

 attaining a height of from 50 to 70 feet in the low marshy grounds 

 of Virginia, but much less in districts further north. The branches 

 are spreading and much ramified, the branchlets very slender, 

 crowded, and covered with small ovate or triangular-shaped, closely 

 appressed glaucous green leaves, which often have a small gland 

 at the back. The cones are small globular bodies, not much larger 

 than peas, with thick scales, bearing two or more seeds attached 

 to their contracted base. 



Habitat. — The eastern United States, in the neighbourhood of the 

 Atlantic coast, from Massachusetts to Florida ; also in Wisconsin. 



Introduced by Peter Collinson in 1736. 



Oupressus thyoides Hoveyi. — A variety of rather slender habit, 

 in which the ultimate branchlets are short, very numerous, and 

 agglomerated into dense terminal tufts. 



Oupressus thyoides leptoclada. — See Betinospora leptoclada. 



Oupressus thyoides nana is a compact, diminutive bush, with 

 glaucous foliage, useful for variety in collections of small Conifers, 

 and in damp places where few other kinds will grow. 



Oupressus thyoides variegata.— A handsome low or medium- 

 sized tree, on which more than half the branchlets, with their 

 foliage, are of a rich golden-yellow. It requires a damp, moist 

 situation. 



Oupressus thyoides is popularly known hi America as the White Cedar, 

 The wood is reddish, light, fine in grain, and very durable, and on 



* Carriere, Traiti G&niral dm Coniftres, p. 149. 



. J ^7Zl- h r idCS iS ^ typic !, 1 tree Upo ? which S P ach founded llis g eM * Chamascyparis, 

 Bctin^SsT WCTe SUbSeq,lently gr0Upe(1 a Lam ™™™> 0. nutkaeZis, and the Japanese 



