CYPRESS FAMILY 



3. Cupressus goveniana Gord. 

 Gowen Cypress. Fig. 151. 



Cupresiiis goreniana Gord. Jour. Hort. Soc. 



Lond. 4: 295. 1849. 

 Cupressus calif ornica Carr. Trait. Conif. 127. 



1855. 

 C"i(/'re.jji(5 /'r<;"!!7ca Sarg. Bot. Gaz. 31 : 239. 1901, 



Small tree, 0.3-5 m. high, or rarely a 

 large tree nearly 30 m. high and 1.5 m. 

 in diameter ; bark fibrous, persistent. 

 Leaves on slender 4-sided branchlets, 

 slightly keeled and acutish, glandless ; 

 staminate flowers oblong, with 3 lateral 

 anthers in each row ; cones subglobose or 

 broadly oblong, 15-20 mm. long, reddish 

 brown and shining, becoming gray-brown 

 with age ; scales 6-8 with short, thin- 

 edged, upwardly appressed umbos ; seeds 

 black or dark brown, angular or mar- 

 gined, minutely warty, 1-3 mm. long. 



First discovered at Monterey on the pine 

 barrens of Huckleberry Hill. It also occurs on 

 the pine barrens or the "White Plains" of 

 Mendocino County, California. Transition Zone. 



4. Cupressus guadalupensis S. Wats. 

 Guadaloupe Cypress. Fig. 152. 



Cupressus guadalupensis S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 300. 



1879. 

 Cupressus macrocarpa guadalupensis Masters, Gard. Chron. III. 



18: 62. /. 8, 9. 12. 1895. 



Small tree, 5-10 m. high, clothed from the ground 

 with slender, ascending branches, forming a thin, open, 

 conical crown ; bark of the trunk separating into ex- 

 tremely thin, reddish brown scales, exfoliating, leav- 

 ■ ing a smooth, polished, red-brown inner bark. 

 Leaves on slender terete branchlets, light green, 

 acutish, slightly keeled at the tip, furnished with a 

 dorsal pit, but not resinous-glandular ; staminate 

 flowers oblong with 3 lateral anthers in each row ; 

 cones globose, 20-25 mm. broad, light brown, becom- 

 ing gray-brown with age ; scales 6-8 with central sub- 

 conical or more or less appressed and crescent- 

 shaped umbos; seeds reddish brown, sharply angled, 

 obscurely warty, 3 mm. long. 



Dry moiuitain slopes. Upper Sonoran Zone; Orange County, 

 to Lower California and Guadaloui)e Island. Type locality: 

 Guadaloupe Island. 



5. Cupressus macnabiana Alurr. 

 MacNab Cypress. Fig. 153. 



Cupressus inacnahiana Murr. Edinb. New. Phil. Jour. 



II. 1: 293. pi. 11. 1855. 

 Cupressus glandiilosa Henk. & Hochst. Syn. Nadelh. 



241. 1865. 

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



Small tree, 5-10 m., rarely 20 m. high with 

 a trunk up to 6 dm. in diameter ; branches 

 usually crooked and forming an irregular 

 open crown ; bark thin, gray-brown, fibrous 

 and persistent. Leaves on slender branchlets 

 slightly constricted between the pairs, obtuse, 

 flat and conspicuously glandular on the dorsal 

 surface, very fragrant ; staminate flowers sub- 

 globose with only 1 or 2 lateral anthers in 

 each row ; cones globose, 12-18 mm. broad, 

 brown and shining; scales usually 6; umbos 

 above the middle of the scale, conical, the 

 uppermost pair prominent and often incurved ; 

 seeds brown, 3 mm. long, obscurely and 

 sparsely warty. 



Dry hillsides and canons. Transition and Upper Sonoran Zones; Shasta and Modoc Counties to Men- 

 docino and Napa Counties, California. Type locality: Near Whiskeytown, Shasta County. 



Cupressus macnabiana nevadensis Abrams (Cupressus nevadensis Abrams, Torreya 19: 92. 1919). 

 Foliage without the characteristic fragrance of the typical form, and branchlets more distinctly 4-sided; 

 cones 20-25 mm. long, light gray-brown. 



Dry slopes of igneous rocks. Upper Sonoran Zone; Red Hill, near Bodfish, Piute Mountains, Kern 

 County, California. 



