HARDY CONIFEROUS TREES 63 



(Synonyms : C. nutkaensis, Hooker ; Chamaecyparis 

 nutkaensis, Spach ; Thujopsis borealis, Carrier e.) 

 Vancouver Island, Oregon, British Columbia. 

 About 1850-1853. — This is a fine, spreading 

 branched tree, with an exterior resemblance to 

 C. Lawsoniana, but certainly inferior to that species 

 in point of ornamental appearance. It is some- 

 what stiff and rigid in outline, the main branches 

 having a partially upright tendency, with numerous 

 drooping branctilets, thickly clothed with small, 

 closely imbricated, sharp-pointed leaves, of a rich 

 dark green above, slightly glaucous beneath, and 

 emitting a pungent odour when crushed. The 

 cones are nearly spherical in shape, each half an 

 inch in diameter, composed of four scales with, on 

 an average, eleven seeds. The male catkins are 

 sulphur yellow. 



For economic planting, this cypress is well 

 worthy of attention, it being of undoubted hardi- 

 hood, and producing valuable timber which is of 

 a pale yellow colour, light in proportion to the 

 bulk, and very durable. Trees of twenty years' 

 growth are, from a great number of measurements 

 I have taken, usually about 19 feet high, rarely 

 more, while the taper in the trunk is greater than 

 in any other of the species. 



That there is a great exterior resemblance 

 between Cupresstis Lawsoniana and C. nootkaten- 

 sis cannot be denied, and in consequence one 

 frequently does duty for the other. The differ- 

 ences are, however, markedly characteristic, for 

 if the strong pungent smell of the foliage of C. 

 nootkatensis were not sufficient, even in the dark, 

 the more pendulous branches, larger cones with 



