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Pinus muricata, forming a dense bush, from six to ten feet in 

 height. It is at once distinguished from the great Californian 

 species (C. macrocarpa) by its very much smaller cones, and 

 more spreading, slender, somewhat pendulous branches. 



It was named in compliment to J. R. Gowen, Esq., late 

 secretary to the Horticultural Society of London. 



It is quite hardy. 



No. 7. CuPRESSUS Kn I GHTi AN A, Perry, Mr. Knight's Cypress, 

 Syn. Cupressus Lindleyi, Klotsch. 

 „ „ Coulteri, Forbes. 



„ „ thurifera elegans, Hort. 



„ „ „ Knightiana, Gordon, 



Leaves, opposite, scale-like, not compressed at the points, 

 four-rowed, sharp-pointed, loosely imbricated, decurrent, 

 acutely-keeled, with a hollow gland in the centre at the back ; 

 very distant, lance-shaped, large and running down the stem at 

 the base, on the leading shoots, glaucous green, and standing 

 free. Branches, dark brown, stiff, scattered, rarely opposite, 

 along the stem ; the upper ones slightly spreading, the lesser 

 ones horizontal, and frequently bending downwards. Branch- 

 lets, mostly two-rowed, alternate, closely placed, mostly pointing 

 obliquely outwards, and flattened. Cones, globular, eight or 

 ten lines in diameter, very glaucous, smooth, and with eight or 

 ten scales in each. Scales, elevated, shield-shaped, and convex 

 in the centre, terminated by a short prickle, and containing 

 under each several flattish winged seeds of a light brown 

 colour. 



A handsome, vigorous tree, with a conical head, and all the 

 principal young shoots of a beautiful glaucous violet, or reddish 

 plum colour, growing 120 feet high, and 2^ to 3 feet in diameter, 

 on the mountains of Mexico. It is much hardier in England 

 than Cupressus Benthami, a kind with which it has been con- 

 founded by some writers, on account of their never having seen 

 the living tree ; but Mr. Perry, a very accurate observer of 



