66 CUPRESSUS ; OR 



and have a more pyramidal-shaped head, while the cutting 

 plants (C. Lambertiana) have a horizontal and rather flat-headed 

 appearance. 



It is one of the finest Cypresses yet introduced, on account 

 of its beautiful bright green aspect, its great size and hardiness. 

 Mr. Hartvveg 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 a far- spreading, branching flat 

 top, like a full-grown Cedar of Lebanon, which it very much 

 resembles when old. It is hardy, and will grow in almost any 

 kind of soil which is not very poor. 



No. 12. CuPRESsus NuTKAENSTS, Lambert, the Nootka Sound 



Cypresss. 

 Syn. Cupressus Nootkatensis, Loudon. 

 „ „ Americana, Trautvetter. 



„ Chamsecyparis Nutkaensis, Spach. 

 „ Thuia excelsa, Bungard. 

 „ Thuiopsis Borealis, Fischer. 

 „ Abies aromatica, Rajinesque. 



Leaves, in four rows, in epposit;^ pr^ir'5, broadly ovate at the 

 base, sharp-pointed, and one-eighth of an inch long, very thick, 

 smooth, of a glossy green, sometimes a little glaucous when 

 young, on the upper side, and pale, dull green below, convex 

 on the back, decurrent, and closely adhering at the base ; adult 

 ones much shorter, awl-shaped at the points, keeled on the 

 back, without any gland, but furrowed, and closely imbricated; 

 those on the young plants glaucous, somewhat lanceolate, quite 

 straight, extended at the points, loosely imbricated, and bristle- 

 pointed. Branches, round, spreading, or curved upwards to- 

 wards the ends, but sometimes those near the bottom of the 

 trees are more or less deflected; scaly from the withered leaves, 

 and of a brownish colour ; lateral ones in two rows, regularly 

 placed alternately on each side, flat and flexible ; branchlets, 

 in two rows, four-sided, rather distant, extended, and thickly 



