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may not, in the opinion of some, shed any very 
lambent light on the subject, still it may be the first 
awakening to the fact that we are looking at a tree 
of far rarer appearance in England than the Macro- 
carpa, or even the Sempervirens or Roman Cypress. 
It may interest readers to learn that there is a 
tree growing here (Stanage), at an elevation above 
the sea of a very little less than 800 feet, planted in 
December 1842, and, according to an old family 
document, referred to as the C. Tomentosa Torulosa. 
It measures 42 ft. in height, and in girth 6 ft. 2 in., and 
so compared with others mentioned in the Walhalla 
of remarkable trees of Great Britain (Elwes and 
Henry), according to measurements and age, was 
deserving of a niche in those palaces of immortality. 
Had the authors paid a visit to it before instead of after 
their Cypress chapters had been published, it would 
have been accorded, we were informed, the honour of 
a site therein. 
EU-CUPRESSI 
Group A: C, Funesris, Lusiranica, ARIZONICA, 
MACNABIANA, CASHMERIANA; AND Group B: 
GovVENIANA 
Oh, lady, twine no wreath for me 
Or twine it of the cypress tree. 
Str WALTER Scott. 
The C. Funesris has the reputation of being not 
hardy, but of some capability of endurance in the 
climates of the south-west of England and in Ireland. 
Its life’s history with us in brief is: it is a native of 
Central China; it was discovered in 1793 by Sir 
George Stanton, attached to Lord Macartney’s 
mission, in an appropriately entitled locality, from 
whence it was to derive a subsequent name, called 
the Valley of Tombs. It came to England in 1804; 
failed, and was tried again in 1848. It has a weeping, 
