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CUPRESSACEAE 



3. CUPRESSUS [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 1002. 1753. 



J^esinous aromatic trees with fibrous or exfoliating bark, light brown, durable, and 

 fragrant wood ; stout, erect or horizontal branches and naked buds. Leaves scale-like. 

 decussate, ovate, acute, acuminate or rounded at the apex. Flowers monoecious, small, 

 terminal on the branchlets ; the staminate rounded to oblong, yellowish, with subpeltate 

 scales bearing 3-5 subtended pollen-sacs ; the ovulate green and inconspicuous, the pointea 

 scales spreading and exposing the numerous erect basal ovules ; cones maturing the seconc 

 \^ear, globose to oblong, the scales much thickened into a shield-shaped apex with a prom'- 

 nent' central boss or prickle, closely fitting and not overlapping, separating at maturity or 

 remaining closed for years ; seeds small, compressed, acutely angled or margined ; cotyle- 

 dons 2-5. [The ancient classical name.] 



About 12 species, natives of warm, temperate Asia, southern Europe, southwestern United States ant 

 Mexico. Type species, Cupressus sempervirens L. 



Leaves without glands or with dorsal pits, not resinous glandular; umbos low, crescent-shaped. 

 Bark more or less ridged and furrowed, with persistent fibrous scales. 

 Seeds reddish brown, often glaucous. 



Leaves without dorsal pits; staminate flowers subglobose. L C. 



Leaves with dorsal pits; staminate flowers oblong. 

 Seeds black or a dark dull brown; usually dwarfed trees. 

 Bark very thin, exfoliating in broad, irregular, and thin plates, leaving a smooth cherry-red surface. 



4. C. gitadalupcnsis. 

 Leaves with conspicuous resinous pits, very fragrant; umbos usually prominent and conical. 



5. C. macnabiana. 



macrocarpa. 



2. C. sargentii. 



3. C. goieniana. 



1. Cupressus macrocarpa Hartw. 

 Alonterey Cypress. Fig. 149. 



Cupressus macrocarpa Hartw.; Gord. Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond. 4: 296. 



1849. 

 Cupressus hartwegii Carr. Rev. Hort. 1855: 233. 1855. 



A maritime tree 15-25 m. high, with a trunk 0.5-2 m. 

 in diameter ; bark 20-25 mm. thick, fibrous ; wood close- 

 grained, hard, heavy, strong, and durable. Leaves on short, 

 stout, terete branchlets, about 3 mm. long, obtuse, gland- 

 less, obscurely or not at all pitted, persisting for 3 or 4 

 years ; staminate flowers subglobose, usually, with only 2 

 lateral anthers in each row ; the ovulate oblong, with spread- 

 ing pointed scales ; cones solitary or clustered on short, 

 stout stalks, broadly oblong, 25-35 mm. long, puberulent, 

 dull brown ; scales 8-12, flat-topped, with a central curved 

 ridge-like umbo, or those of the uppermost scales sub- 

 conical ; seeds about 4 mm. long, light chestnut-brown, ir- 

 regularly angled and narrowly winged, with a minute white 

 lanceolate hilum. 



Occupies a narrow belt on the two promontories (Cypress Point 

 and Point Lobos) bounding Carmel Bay, a few miles south of Monte- 

 rey, California. Transition Zone. 



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2. Cupressus sargentii Jepson. 

 Sargent Cypress. Fig. 150. 



Cupressus sargentii Jepson, Fl. Calif. 1: 61. 1909. 



Small tree, usually 3-5 m. or rarely 15 m. high with 

 a short trunk, 20-40 cm. in diameter ; branches slender, 

 erect or spreading, forming an open crown ; branch- 

 lets slender ; bark 6-12 mm. thick, dark reddish brown, 

 fibrous. Wood weak, light, and soft, light brown. 

 Leaves on slender terete branchlets, dark green and 

 obscurely glandular or without glands, 2-3 mm. long, 

 acutish, persisting 3-4 years ; staminate flowers oblong, 

 with 2-3 lateral anthers in each row ; cones subglobose, 

 often clustered, 15-25 mm. long, reddish or purplish 

 brown and shining, puberulent ; scales 6-8, with a small 

 upwardly appressed crescent-shaped umbo ; seeds 

 reddish brown and glaucous, acutely margined, 3 mm. 

 long. 



Dry mountain, usually serpentine, slopes in more or less 

 isolated groves. Upper Sonoran and Transition Zones; Red 

 Mountain, Mendocino County, southward to the Santa Lucia 

 Mountains, Monterey County, California. Type locality: Mount 

 Tamalpais, Marin County. 



