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ern “bald cypress,” and the Mexican T. mucronatum 
which differs chiefly in being more evergreen. 
T. distichum has several forms which are dwarfer, 
more pyramidal or more pendulous than the type. The 
tree is too common in the Southern Cypress swamps to 
TAXODIUM DISTICHUM. GLYPTOSTROBUS 
HETEROPHYLLUS. 
be planted there perhaps, but northward to Southern 
New England and the lower lakes it may be used not 
only as a highly ornamental deciduous tree, but as a 
cheap nurse plant for such tender subjects as the Se- 
quoias, Cryptomerias and certain Cypresses, for in many 
places it retains its browned foliage well into winter. 
It will grow in Central New Jersey up to 90 feet high 
on comparatively dry soil, but will be most thrifty 
near a stream. Whenever it becomes necessary to thin 
out the nurse trees used for temporary shelter and 
effect it may reconcile the reluctant ones to know that 
the thinnings are most useful as hop-poles, bean-poles, 
plant-stakes and such like, and the permanent groups 
will prove not only among the most cheerful in their 
spring greenery, but the most striking trees on the 
sky-line. There has been and is much confusion be- 
tween the form called T. distichum pendulum and the 
next genus. Even the old tree near the Temple of the 
Sun at Kew got mixed in the muddle, but I cannot give 
the particulars. 
Glyptostrobus is probably monotypic, but varies a 
good deal. It is found in the south of China, but ex- 
tends well to the north, just how far I don’t know. 
G. heterophyllus, as it is called, is commonly a much 
more slender tree than any form of bald cypress. The 
leaves are deciduous, quite small and more closely 
pressed to the branchlets than in Taxodium; still there 
are but few characters by which they may be distin- 
guished, and the various forms of the two genera 
would be excellent subjects for “original investiga- 
tion.” 
y Ictinostrobus in 2 species are from South East Aus- 
tralia. A. pvramidalis is said to have produced cones 
on the Riviera, and it is only in such climates that the 
trees can be grown. 
Callitris as now constituted may have a dozen ( ?) 
species in Australasia and South Africa. They are 
but little known either in European or American out- 
door cultivation ; the authorities, too, are often wran- 
gling about names. C. robusta appears in South Flor- 
ida nursery catalogues. The timber of several Aus- 
tralian species is useful. 
Widdringtonia Whitei occurs in large forests on the 
M’lanje Hills in British Central Africa. It was hoped 
a few years ago it would prove hardy somewhere 
south, but I have heard nothing of it recently. It is 
said to be cool enough for three or four pairs of blan- 
kets when sleeping on the mountains where it grows, 
but it is no doubt nearly sub-tropical. 
BRANCH AND CONES OF ATHROTAXIS TAXIFOLIA. 
Tetraclinis articulata is found principally in Morocco 
and Algiers, North Africa. 
Fitsroya is in two species, F. Archeri from Tasmania 
and F. Patagonica from the mountains of W. Pata- 
gonia, Chile and Valdivia. 
James MacPHERSON. 
