846 DR. MAXWELL T. MASTERS—A GENERAL 
7. Cupressus GovENIANA, Gordon in Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond. 
iv. (1849) p. 295, c. ic. 
Arbor seu arbuscula comá effusá seu pyramidali, ramis tere- 
tibus rubris horizontaliter patentibus seu ascendentibus; foliis 
ramealibus longe concrescentibus appressis homomorphis del- 
toideis; ramis herbaceis ambitu oblongis angustis elongatis 1-2 
pinnatim ramulosis, ramulis tetrastichis sepe decussatis, graci- 
libus, laxiuseulis brevibus tetragonis; foliis 1-2 mill. long. laxe 
imbricatis, facialibus ovato-oblongis obtusiusculis vel subaeutis 
convexis glandulosis; amentis 2 mill. long. oblongis obtusis; 
strobilis aggregatis breviter pedunculatis 15 mill. diam. globosis, 
squamis leviusculis seu rugulosis medio breviter pyramidato 
umbonatis ; bracteá fere omnino cum umbone concrescente ; semi- 
nibus oblongis obtusis anguste alatis. 
Folia primordialia brevia subulata pungentia basi concres- 
centes apice libera patentes. 
C. Goveniana.— Herbaceous shoot, foliage, and catkin. 
California, prope Monterey in montibus primo detexit, Hart- 
weg n. 1971! Lobb 10! “Humboldt County south along the 
coast, and through the coast-ranges into Lower California," 
Sargent!; St. Helena Cañon, Pringle!; Santa Lucia in montes, 
Vasey 1; Santa Cruz, Marcus Jones, 2355 ! ; loc. haud cit., Kellogg 
§ Harford, 932!; Mendocino Plains, Pringle! 
Gordon, Pinetum, ed. rr. 83; Benth. Plant. Hartweg (1849), 
337 ; Torrey, Mex. Bound. Survey, 211; Parlatore in DC. Prod. 
xvi. II. 471; Engelmann in S. Watson, Bot. Californ. ii. 114; 
