. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. 232 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS cupressoides, Endl. {Callitris cupressoides, Schrad.). Shrub or small tree: leaves imbricate, scale-like: cone-scales smooth on back with an obtuse mucro below the apex and each with 5-10 winged seeds. South Africa.— Introduced to France before 1850. 11. SCIADOP TYS, Sieb. & Zucc. UMBRELLA-PINE Evergreen tree: leaves of two kinds; small and scale-like leaves scattered on the shoot, but
. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. 232 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS cupressoides, Endl. {Callitris cupressoides, Schrad.). Shrub or small tree: leaves imbricate, scale-like: cone-scales smooth on back with an obtuse mucro below the apex and each with 5-10 winged seeds. South Africa.— Introduced to France before 1850. 11. SCIADOP TYS, Sieb. & Zucc. UMBRELLA-PINE Evergreen tree: leaves of two kinds; small and scale-like leaves scattered on the shoot, but crowded at its end and bearing in their axils a whorl of 20-30 long, linear, flat leaves furrowed on each side, more deeply beneath; these leaves really consist each of 2 connate leaves borne on undeveloped spurs like those of Pinus; they have been sometimes called cladodes, but are not true cladodes: flowers monoecious; the staminate oval, consisting of spirally disposed 2-celled anthers and appearing in dense clusters at the ends of the shoots; the fertile ones are solitary at the ends of the shoots and con- sist of numerous spirally arranged scales subtended by a small bract and bearing 7-9 ovules: cone oblong-ovate, woody, ripening the second season; bracts adnate to the broadly orbicular thick scales spread- ing at the margin; seeds oval, com- pressed, with narrow wing, emarginate at the apex; cotyledons 2. (Name derived from Greek skias, skiados, umbrella, and pitys, pine; al- luding to the posi- tion of the leaves.) —One species in Japan, with very strong and straight- grained, nearly white 54. Sciadopitys Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co. , ltd.
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