Archive image from page 296 of The cultivated evergreens; a handbook. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada cultivatedevergr00bail Year: 1923 ( ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 211 globular, nearly sessile, - inch across; scales 8-10 with a short, obtuse, inconspicuous boss. Himalayas.—Introduced to Great Britain in 1824 by Wallich. Var. Comeyana, Carr. (C. Corneyana, Knight). Branches and branchlets pendulous; the brancldet-systems not distinctly distichous.— Introduced before 1850. 9. C.
Archive image from page 296 of The cultivated evergreens; a handbook. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada cultivatedevergr00bail Year: 1923 ( ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 211 globular, nearly sessile, - inch across; scales 8-10 with a short, obtuse, inconspicuous boss. Himalayas.—Introduced to Great Britain in 1824 by Wallich. Var. Comeyana, Carr. (C. Corneyana, Knight). Branches and branchlets pendulous; the brancldet-systems not distinctly distichous.— Introduced before 1850. 9. C. fimebris, Endl. (C. pendula, Lambert). Moxjening C. Fig. 34. Tree to 60 feet tall, with wide-spreading, pendu- lous branches and branchlets; branchlets flattened; trunk with brown smooth bark: leaves deltoid-ovate, acute, light green, often slightly spreading at the apex: cones short-peduncled, globose, H~/'2 iiich across; scales 8, with a short-pointed boss. China.—Intro- duced in 1850 to Great Britain by Fortune. A related species is C. cashmeriana, Royle {C. torulosa var. kashtniriajia, Kent. C. fimebris var. glauca. Mast.). Kashmir C. Tree with ascending branches and pendulous branclilets; branchlets compressed: lateral leaves spreading: cones dark brown, ellipsoidal, nearly 3 inch across; scales 10 with triangular reflexed umbo. Kashmir.—Intro- duced about 1862. 3. CHAMiECYPARIS, Spach. CYPRESS Evergreen trees with scaly or fissured bark; the leading shoots nodding; branchlets usually flattened and pinnately ramified: leaves scale-like (only in the juvenile state subulate), opposite and decussate, densely clothing the branchlets: flowers monoecious, small; the fertile ones inconspicuous, globose; stami- nate yellow or red, oblong, often conspicuous by their abundance: cones small, globular, with 6-11 bracts, each bearing 2, rarely up to 5, winged seeds, ripening the first season. (Apparently an adaptation from Pliny's Chamjecyparissus, 'ground-cypress,' derived fr
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