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same kind wliich they had received from Dr. Fischer, of St. Peters- 

 burg, as a new species of Cupressus from California. At a later 

 period, Mr. Hartweg, when in Upper California, discovered it, 

 and finding it had very large fruit, gave it the name of C. 

 macrocarpa, which, having been published in the Society's 

 Journal, takes precedence of the unpublished though general 

 name of C. Lambertiana. 



[Cupressus Lamlieitiana.] 



It is one of the finest plants yet introduced as an evergreen 

 tree, not only on account of its beautiful bright green aspect, but 

 for its great size and hardiness. Mr. Hartweg found it forming 

 a tree 60 feet high, with a stem 9 feet in circumference, on the 

 wooded heights near Monterey in Upper California, and with 

 far-spreading branches flat at top, like a full-grown Cedar of 

 Lebanon, which it very much resembles when old. It is per- 

 fectly hardy, and will grow in almost any kind of soil which is 

 not very poor. 



G. G.—Sept. 1849. 



