THE TRUK CYPIIESSES. 65 



No. 11. CuPRESSus MACROCARPA, Hcirtweg , Lambert's 



Cypress. 

 Syn. C. Lambertiana, Gordon. 

 „ „ macrocarpa fastigiata, Knight. 



Leaves, ovate, imbricated, in four rows, bright grass green, 

 and closely set upon the old plants ; they are expanded, awl- 

 shaped, sharp-pointed, and thickly set upon the young plants. 

 Branches, irregularly spiral, but sometimes alternate or opposite, 

 younger ones and laterals opposite, dense and quite green, 

 older branches dark brown, and nearly horizontal from the 

 main stem. Cones, in clusters, of three or four together, 

 oblong, one and a half inch long, and one broad, with ten scales, 

 the larger dark brown, and more or less angular. Seed-leaves, 

 in fours, but sometimes only in threes. Seeds, angular. 



In the year 1838 the late Mr. Lambert distributed among his 

 friends a few seeds of this Cypress, without any name or indi- 

 cation from whence he had obtained the seeds, and from these 

 seeds plants were raised, which, when large enough, were at 

 once seen to be very distinct from any previously known ; and I 

 gave to it the name of C. Lambertiana, in compliment to the 

 late Mr. A. Lambert, and to mark from whence they were first 

 obtained. Nothing, however, was ascertained further concerning 

 the country from whence it came until some two years after- 

 wards, when I observed at Mr. Low's nursery, at Clapton, a 

 plant of the same kind, which had been received from Dr. 

 Fischer, of St. Petersburg, as a new species 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 Cupressus macrocarpa, and which, having been pub- 

 lished in his Journal, takes precedence of my unpublished 

 though general name of C. Lambertiana. It is identically the 

 same plant, although some persons endeavour to make them 

 distinct varieties; that there is some difference in the shape of 

 the plants may be, but then that arises from nearly all those 

 plants known under the name of C. Lambertiana being raised 

 from cuttings, while all those called C. macrocarpa are seedling. 



