1078 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, deciduous ; 2-ranked, linear 
Flowers yellowish, powdery, inconspicuous. 
Lofty deciduous trees, natives of the southern part of North America ; sepa- 
rated from the genus Cupréssus, principally because the male catkins are dis- 
osed in loose spreading bunches, instead of being solitary and terminal ; and 
ecause the female catkins are roundish and scaly, like the male, and each 
scale has only 2 perfect flowers. The genus is also distinguished by the 
embryo having from 5 to 9 cotyledons. The species are generally propagated 
by seeds, and the varieties by cuttings, layers, or inarching. 
* 1. T. pi’sticnum Rich. The two-ranked-leaved Taxodium, or Deciduous 
Cypress. 
Identification. Rich. Mém. sur les Conif., p. 53. 143.; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 2. t. 63. — 
Synonymes. Cupréssus disticha Lin. Sp. Pl. 1422., Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. ; C. americana Cat. Carol. 
1. p. 11.3 _¢. virginiana Comm. Hort.1. p.113.; Schubértia disticha Mzrb. ; bald Cypress, Cypress, 
Amer. ; Cyprés de Amérique, Cyprés chauve, I’. ; zweyzeilige Cypresse, Ger. ; Cipresso gaggia, 
Ital. 
Engravings. Rich. Conif., t.10 ; Michx. North Amer. Syl., 3.; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., t. 63.; the 
plates of this tree in Arb. Brit., lst edit., vol. viii. ; and our jig. 2006. 
Spec. Char., §&c. Leaves 2-rowed, flat, deciduous. Male flowers leafless and 
panicled. Cones somewhat globose. (Willd.) A lofty deciduous tree. 
Florida, and on the Delaware and Mississippi, in swampy ground. Height 
100 ft. to 150 ft.; in England, 50 ft. to 80 ft. Introduced before 1640. 
It flowers in May, and the cones, which are brown, are ripened in the spring 
of the following year. 
Varieties. 
£ T. d. 1 pdatens Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. p. 323.— Leaves approxi- 
mate, and strictly 2-rowed. This is the most common form. 
£7. d. 2 nutans, 1. ce. T. d. péndula 
Loud. Hort. Brit. — Leaves much 
longer than those of the species, and 
drooping, but more remote and thinner 
in texture, with a tortuous curly ap- 
pearance when they first appear in 
spring. A specimen of the early shoots 
is shown in fig. 2005. 
¥ T. d. 3 excélsum Booth.— Horticultural 4 
Society, in 1837. 2005. T. d. ndtans. 
¥ T. d. 4 sinénse. T. sinénse Noisette. — 
How far it differs from T. d. nitans, or whether it differs at all, we 
are uncertain. H.S8., in 1837. 
¥ T. d. 5 5. péndulum. T. sinénse péndulum Hort.—H. S., in 1837. 
The deciduous cypress is one of those trees that sport exceedingly in the 
seed-bed ; and, hence, wherever a number of them are found growing to- 
gether, scarcely any two appear to have precisely the same habit. This is 
strikingly the case at White Knights, where there are several scores of 
trees, presenting a variety of forms and foliage almost as great as their number. 
They may all, however, as well as those enumerated in the above list, be 
reduced to the following four forms. 1. The species, or normal form, in 
which the branches are horizontal or somewhat inclined upwards. 2. T. d. 
péndulum, with the branches pendulous. 3. T. d. nitans, with the branches 
horizontal, and the young shoots of the year pendulous ; the leaves being 
twisted and compressed round them in the early part of the season, but 
fully expanded, like those of the species, towards the autumn. Most of 
these shoots have their points killed every winter, and many of them are 
entirely destroyed. 4. T. d. tortudsum péndulum, with the leaves on the 
young shoots tortuous, and the branches pendulous. There is a very 
elegant specimen of this tree at White Knights. With respect to the T. 
sinénse of cultivators, we have not been able to discover in what it differs 
from T. nutans ; and of T. d. excélsum we have only seen very small plants. 
