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growing compact shrub with glaucous green imbricate foliage. 
It is said to be quite hardy in England. 
17. GLYPTOSTROBUS. 
Deciduous or at least not truly evergreen trees or shrubs. 
Leaves scattered, small, variable, either imbricated or spreading. 
Flowers moneecious. Scales of the conoid fruit leathery, with 
two seeds at the base of each. The generic name is from 
yAurrrés, carved or engraved, and otpoBos, a cone, in reference 
to the embossed scales. There are two species described, both 
natives of China, and one extending to Japan. 
1. G. péndulus, syn. Taxddium distichum var. péndulum, 
and TY. Sinénse.—A small tree with pendulous branches, exces- 
sively slender deciduous branchlets, and appressed or spreading 
very small linear-acute bright green leaves. Cones small, oblong 
or ovate, with pointed scales. A beautiful hardy tree from North 
China and Japan. 
2. G. heterophyllus, syn. Taxddium nuciferum, ete. Chi- 
nese Water Pine.—A small tree with variable closely imbricated 
scale-like or linear and spreading glaucous green leaves. Cones 
oblong, scales unequal, with a recurved point. A native of 
China, rather tender in this country. 
18. TAXODIUM. 
Deciduous monecious trees with distichous leaves and small 
globular or oval cones composed of peltate woody scales with 2 
seeds at the base of each. All the known forms of this genus 
are usually referred to one species, a native of the United States 
of North America. The name is derived from tafos, the Yew, 
and «dos, resemblance, referring to the disposition of the 
foliage. 
1. JT. distichum. Deciduous or Bald Cypress.—A large tree 
with slender often deciduous ultimate branchlets, and soft 
linear-acute distichous crowded leaves from 6 to 9 lines long. 
Cone close and hard, about 1 inch in diameter. This is an ex- 
ceedingly beautiful and graceful tree, and of the few hardy 
deciduous Conifers the one most frequently planted. It is very 
variable in habit and size of foliage, and some of the forms have 
received various names either as distinct species or varieties of 
this. The shrub called 7. distichwm péndulum belongs to the 
preceding genus. 
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