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dark reddish-brown, glaucous, with four to six 

 scales, each furnished with a prominent, erect, 

 pointed boss; seeds two to four on each scale, 

 about 5 millimeters long, with large lateral wings. 

 Southern Alaska to Oregon, mostly at high 

 elevations in the Coast and Cascade Mountains. 

 Common in southeastern Vancouver Island at 

 elevations above one thousand feet. 



A tree of moderate size resembling Thuja 

 plicata in foliage. The two can be readily dis- 

 tinguished by the fruit, and with little difficulty 

 by a close examination of the foliage. The 

 branchlets of this tree are much less flattened 

 than those of Thuja plicata, the leaves of the 

 four ranks are more nearly alike in form, and 

 all the leaves, especially those of the leading 

 shoots, are more pointed than in that tree. Both 

 species have aromatic foliage, but their odors are 

 entirely different. The smell and taste of the 

 foliage of this Cupressus approximate much 

 more closely to some of the species of Juniper 

 than to Thuja. 



The seedlings of this species, like those of 

 Thuja plicata, have spreading acicular leaves 



