EU-CUPRESSI AND CHAMACYPARIS 1$9 
Briefly defined the cones of the Cypresses are 
rotund and sub-globose in shape. The cones of the 
Thuya_are oblong, conical, or, as some describe them, 
-ovoid-cylindrical, while the fruit of ‘the Juniper is 
no ligneous cone at all, but merely a little succulent 
blue-black and brown berry, with mucronate fleshy 
scales maturing the second year and bearing 2 to 5 
seeds ; and we may add, while we are about it, that 
the Cupressi bear from 15 to 20, and the Chame- 
cyparis 4 to 5 seeds. Even these brief definitions 
disclose a state of palpable differences, upon which, 
however, we will expatiate a little further. 
The cones of the different Cupressi are of different 
sizes. , 
The Eu-Cupressi have large ligneous, more or less 
rotund, strobiles. 
._The Chamecyparis group have small, woody, sub- 
globose cones. In both cases they are what is 
called peltate. Pelta is the Latin word for a target- 
like shield, and these scales, fixed to the stalk by the 
centre, describe the construction of what is called 
peltate cones. Like the shields of the ancient Britons 
or Gauls, they too have a boss enlargement, and in 
some cases—e.g. the C. Nootkatensis—they show 
some half-dozen little horn-like protuberances in the 
middle of these shield-like scales. When the cone 
of a Lawson Cypress breaks and scatters to the four 
winds of heaven its seed, the little brown ligneous 
framework—all that is left of its light-green glory 
of the previous year—when set upright and looked 
at from a side point of view, develops, with a little 
effort of imagination, the outlined appearance of a 
Maltese Cross. 
Looking, then, at the cones from these points of 
view, a Cypress need never be taken for a Thuya, and 
much less a Juniper for either. The suspicious 
likeness of the adult leaves of.a Juniper is our onlv 
