THE TRUE CYPRESSKS. C7 



covered with short, straight, regularly imbricated leaves. 

 Cones, solitary, globular, almost sessile, or on the ends of very 

 short, scaly branchlets, about the size of a large pea, and 

 covered with a glaucous bloom. Scales, small, rough, and from 

 six to eight in number, embossed, shield-shaped, with four or 

 five angular or orbicular sides, elevated in the centre, in alter- 

 nate opposite pairs, furnished in the middle with a straight, 

 thick, conical, obtuse point, the lower pair much the thinn^'est! 

 and very closely inserted at the base. Seeds, mostly three' 

 under each scale, freely inserted on the interior of the upper 

 surface of the scales, flat, and ear-shaped, with a bony shell 

 along each side, and a membranaceous wing, frequently much 

 broader than the seeds, and cut more or less sloping, top and 

 bottom. 



A tall evergreen tree, attaining 100 feet in height, with 

 spreading or curved flexible branches, which, when old, are 

 covered with small blisters, filled with a fine, aromatic balsam; 

 but every part of the plant, when bruised or cut, emits a strong 

 odour, very much resembling the smell of the common Savin. 



It is found along the north-west coast of North America, 

 particularly at Nootka Sound, in Observatory Inlet, and on the 

 Island of Sitcha. 



It is quite hardy. 



No. 13. CupRESsus sEMPERviRENs, Z., the Upright Cypress. 

 Syn. C. fastigiata, D. C. 

 „ C. stricta. Miller. 

 „ C. pyramidalis, Tozzctt. 

 „ C. Tournefortii, Audihert. 

 „ C. fasmina, Ccesalpin. 



Leaves, imbricated in four rows, small, deep, shining green, 

 closely pressed to the stem, convex, blunt, or pointed on young 

 plants, and persistent. Cones, large, globular, one inch or 

 more in diameter, with numerous large angular scales, slightly 

 convex and mucronate in the centre, becoming woody^nd 



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