LXXVII. CONI'FEREZ: CUPRE’SSUS. 1073 
Genus X. 
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CUPRE’SSUS L. Tue Cypress. Lin. Syst. Monce‘cia Monadélphia. 
Identificatian. Lin. Gen., No. 1079. ; Juss. 113. 
Synonymes. Cyprés, Fr.; Cypresse, Ger.; Cipresso, Ital. ; Ciproste, Port.; Cypros, Hungarian. 
Derivation. According to some, from ud, to produce, and parisos, nearly resembling ; in allusion 
to the regularity of the branches ; or from Cyparissus, a beautiful youth of the Island of Ceos, who 
was changed into a cypress ; or, according to others, from the Isle of Cyprus, where one species of 
the tree was found in abundance. 
Gen. Char. Male flower in terminal solitary catkins. Pollen of each flower 
contained in 4 cases, attached to the scale on the inner face at the lower 
edge. Scales peltate. — Female flowers with the ovaries connate with the 
bractea, and constituting a receptacle. Ovules to each receptacle 8 or more. 
Strobile globose. Receptacles, as included in the strobile, peltate, having 
an obscure tubercle at the tip ; disposed collaterally, not imbricately. Seeds 
compressed, angular ; affixed to the narrow basal part of the receptacle. 
Cotyledons 2. 
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, evergreen ; adpressedly imbricated, 
linear. Flowers yellowish.—Evergreen trees, or large shrubs ; natives of 
Europe, Asia, and North America; remarkable for the fine grain and dura- 
bility of their wood; propagated by seeds, which require the same soil and 
treatment as the Abiétine. 
# 1.C. sempervirens L. The common, or evergreen, Cypress. 
Identification. Wort. Cliff., 449. ; N. Du Ham., 5. P. 2.3; Lam. Dict., 1. : 
Synonymes. C. pyramidalis Hort. ; ? C. fastigidta Hort. and Pin. Wob. p. 186. ; Cyprés pyramidal, 
Cyprés ordinaire, Fr.; gemeine xy presen baum, Ger.; the Italian Cypress. _ J é 
Engravings. Dend. Brit., t. 155.; N. Du Ham., 3. t. 1. 127; the plates of this tree in Arb. Brit., 
Ist edit., vol. viii.; and our fig. 1996. i 
Spec. Char., §c. Branchlets quadrangular. Leaves imbricated in 4 rows, 
obtuse, adpressed, convex. Cones globose; scales mutic. Branches straight. 
(Willd.) A fastigiate evergreen tree. South of Europe, Greece, Turkey, 
"Persia, and Asia Minor. Height, in its native country, 50 ft. to 60ft. ; im 
the climate of London, 30 ft. to 40 ft., rarely 50 ft. Introduced before 1548, 
Flowering in April and May, and ripening its dark brown cones in the fol- 
lowing March or April. 
Varieties. : 
2 C.s.1 strécta Mill. Dict. Cyprés male, Fr. — Branches upright, and 
closely pressed towards the trunk. It is the most common form 
of the species. (See the plate of C. sempervirens in Arb. Brit., 1st 
edit., vol. viii.) 
2 C. 5s. 2 horizontalis Mill. Dict. C. horizontilis N. Du Ham, 3. p. 6.5 
C. expansa Hort. Par.; Cipresso femino Ital. — Branches spread- 
ing. (See the plate of this tree in Ard.’ Brit., lst edit., vol. viii.) 
There is an old tree of this variety in the Chelsea Botanic Garden, 
which by some is considered a species ; and in the Gard. Mag. for 
1839, p. 696., an engraving is given of the Cypress of Mistra, which 
appears to be of this variety. The latter, when measured by the Earl 
of Aberdeen in 1803, had a trunk 26 ft. in circumference at 4. ft. from 
the ground, and appeared to be 150 ft. high. 
The cone of the cypress is composed of large, angular, corky scales, slightly 
convex on the outside, streaked im rays, and mucronate in the centre ; be- 
coming woody and separating when ripe; on the inside, ending in a thick 
angular peduncle, to the extremity of which adhere 4 little nuts, wlach are 
bony, obovate, compressed, or irregularly angular, and covered with a thin 
membranaceous skin of a dun colour. The seed is of a bay colour, and of a 
linear-oblong shape. The wood is hard, fragrant, and of a remarkably fine 
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