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3. C. sargentii Jepson n. nom. Sargent Cypress. Shrub or small tree with 

 compact crown. 8 to 15 feet higli; hark grayish brown and fibrous; leaves with 

 a closed dorsal pit, rarely with lateral depressions, about i^ line long; cones 

 globose, often congested in heavy clusters, shortly peduncled, 8' to 11 lines in 

 diameter; scales 6 or 8, with a very small low upwardlj' impressed crescent- 

 shaped umbo; seeds brown, acutely margined, li/4 to 2 lines long. — (Frutex 

 vel arbor parva 8 ad 15 ped. alta ; cortex cinereofuscus fibratusque : folia circa 

 1/2 lin. longa cum alveolis dorsuali clauso, iufrequenter cum cavis lateralibus; 

 coui globosi s£epe valde aggregati, breviter pedunculi, 8 and 10 lin. in diametro ; 

 squaniffi' 6 ad 8 cum umbone paululo, brevi, lunato atque de infra impresso; 

 semina fusca acute marginata 1VL> ad 2 lin. longa). 



Dry moi;ntain slopes: Mayacamas Range, W.L.J, no. 3027 (type); west 

 side Mt. Tamalpais; Cedar Mt., Alameda Co.; Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz Mts. ; 

 Los Burros Trail, Santa Lucia Mts. Localities few and isolated. 



Refs. — CUPRES.SUS s.^rgentii Jepson. C. goveniana Engelmann in Bot. Cal. vol. 2, p. 11-1, 

 exclusive of Monterey plants; Sargent, Silva N. Am. vol. 10, p. 107, t. 527 (1896); Jepson, 

 Fl. W. Mid. Cal. p. 2;- (1901). 



4. C. macnabiana Murr. McNab Cy'press. Shrub or tree most commonly 

 15 to 25 but even 40 feet high with trunk I/4 to nearly 2 feet in diameter; bark 

 light gray and very smooth ; foliage pungently fragrant with a spic.v odor ; 

 leaves i/^ line long with a conspicuous resin pit or white gland on the back 

 towards the apex, often slightly glaucous; cones globose, clustered, short- 

 peduucled, 5 to 8 lines in diameter, reddish or grayish brown; scales 6 to 8 

 with strong conical umbos, the uppermost pair very prominent or horn-like 

 and incurved; seeds brown, IY2 to mostly 2 lines long. 



Samuels Springs (Napa Co.) to Coyote Valley; Red j\It., Bartlett Creek and 

 northward to Whiskej^tOA^m. Shasta Co. (type loc). and near Dobbin and 

 Magalia in northern Sierra foothills. 



Refs. — CUPRESSUS m.icnabiana Murray, Edin. New Phil. Jour. vol. i, p. 293, pi. 11 (18.55); 

 Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. p. 25 (1901). 



5. C. bakerii Jepson n. sp. Modoc Cy'press. Shrub or becoming a small tree 

 25 feet high with red-brown bark and very slender branehlets; leaves with a 

 distinct resin pit on middle of keeled back; staminate catkins 1 line long or 

 less; cones globose, satiny or glaucous, 5 to 6 lines in diameter; scales 3 pair 

 or with a fourth smaller upper pair; umbos abruptly drawn to a short point, 

 either nipple-like or compressed, straight or slightly curved; seeds brown, 

 114 lines long, narrowly wing-margined. — (Frutex vel arbor parva 25 ped. 

 alta; cortex rufo-fuscus; ramusculi teuuissimi; folia glandula distincta resin- 

 feraque in medio carinato dorso ; amenta staminata 1 lin. vel minus longa; 

 coni globosi, nitidi vel glauci. 4 ad 6 lin. in diametro; tria paria squaniarum 

 vel quartum par minor supra ; umbones abrupte contracti ad apieem vel papil- 

 lati vel compressi, recti vel leniter unci; semina fusca ]i/o lin. longa, anguste 

 marginata ala). 



Lava beds of southeastern Siskiyou and southwesterti Modoc cos. Between 

 Little Hot Spring Valley and Hills Farm, it is associated with Juniper, Yellow 

 Pine and Ivnob-cone Pine CSL S. Baker). 



5. JUNIPERUS L. Juniper. 

 Trees or shrubs. Leaves in whorls of 3 or opposite, scale-like, imbricated, 

 closely appressed and adnate to the branehlets or linear-subulate and si)read- 

 ing. Stamens and ovules on separate trees. Staminate catkins with many 



