60 CUPRESSUS ; OR 



terminated with a round, blunt point, half sunk in the centre. 

 Seeds, angular, surrounded by a pale yellow membranaceous 

 wing. 



It is, when old, a most graceful tree, with a straight stem, 

 and long, drooping branches, attaining a height of 60 feet, but 

 when young it has quite an opposite character, being rigid, 

 pyramidal, and quite a compact bush, full of simple, long, 

 lance-shaped leaves, distant and spreading, very glaucous, and 

 not in the least imbricated ; but afterwards it assumes, as it gets 

 older, very much the appearance of the Indian Cypress (Cu- 

 pressus torulosa), which also becomes quite weeping, when old, 

 on the hills of India. 



It was first introduced into England by Fortune, from the 

 celebrated tea country ' Wheychou,' in the north of China, 

 and who describes it as having the branches growing at first 

 horizontal from the main stem, then describing a graceful curve 

 upwards, and drooping again at the points. 



No. 6. CuPRESSUS GovENiANA, GordoH, Mr. Gowen's Cali- 

 fornian Cypress. 



Leaves, imbricated, blunt, thickly set in four rows, and bright 

 grass green on the old plants, expanded, awl-shaped, very dis- 

 tant, more or less reflexed, sharp-pointed, and rather slender 

 on the young plants. Branches, very irregular on the main 

 stem, some being opposite, others alternate, very numerous, 

 slender, and rather pendant ; lateral branches, spiral, frequently 

 opposite, very dense, and of a beautiful bright green colour. 

 Cones, in large clusters, globular, half an inch in diameter, each 

 having from six to eight scales, which are nearly all four-sided, 

 and elevated in the centre to a blunt point. Seeds, numerous 

 to each scale, rather small, dark brown, irregularly angular, 

 and membraneous at the edges. Seed-leaves, mostly in threes, 

 seldom in fours. 



This beautiful Cypress was first discovered by Mr. Hartweg, 

 on the western declivity of the mountains of Monterey, in Upper 

 California, within two miles of the sea shore, in company with 



