200 A HANDBOOK OF CONIFER.E 



Var. pygmsea, Lemmon.^ 

 Mendocino Cypress. 



Usually a shrubby form producing cones with small blackish 

 seeds. Occasionally on good soil this variety becomes larger. 



C. Goveniana may be distinguished from the better known 

 C. macrocarjm by the fragrant fohage, short tripinnate branchlet 

 systems, and the smaller cones. 



It is widely distributed in the hills of the coast mountains 

 from Mendocino County near Ukiah to San Diego County, CaU- 

 fornia. It was first found in the mountains of Monterey in 1848 

 by Hartweg, who sent seeds to England, and plants were raised 

 in the Horticultural Society's garden at Chiswick. 



The economic properties are of little importance. 



C. Gove7iiana may be grown in ordinary garden soil in the 

 mildest parts of the British Isles. 



Cupressus Lawsoniana, Murray. (Fig. 40.) 

 Lawson Cypress. 



Cupressus fragrans, Kellogg ; ChamaecjTDaris Lawsoniana, Parlatore ; 

 C. Boursierii, Carriere (not Decaisne). Cedar; Ginger Pine; Matchwood; 

 Oregon Cedar ; Port Orford Cedar ; WTiite Cedar ; Spruce Giun. 



A tree attaining in Oregon a height of 175-200 ft. and a girth 

 of 20 or more ft., with a narrow crown of drooping branches. 

 Bark on old trunks up to 18 in. thick, reddish-brown and spongy 

 on the surface, which is ridged and scaly. In cultivation it is 

 very variable in habit but often assumes a columnar to broadly 

 pyramidal outline, furnished to the ground with broad and flat, 

 drooping, fan-like sprays of foUage. Branchlet systems tripin- 

 nate, the ultimate divisions compressed. Leaves closely pressed, 

 arranged in opposite pairs marked with white streaks on the 

 under-surf ace ; the lateral pair keel-shaped, t (t-tV in. long, sUghtly 

 overlapping the facial pair, which are rhomboidal and much 

 smaller, about ^V in. long, often glandular pitted; those on the 

 main axes oblong, unequal, the lateral pair \ in., the facial pair 

 5^ in. long, with short or long sUghtly spreading points. Male 

 flowers pink or crimson. Cones ripening in the first autumn, 

 globose, ^ in. in diameter, shortly stalked, reddish brown, glau- 

 cous ; scales 8, each with a central depression in which is a ridge- 

 hke process. Seeds 2-5 on each scale, ovate, with conspicuous 

 resin tubercles, winged. 



The extraordinary variability of the Lawson cypress under 

 cultivation has resulted in a large number of forms being given 

 varietal names. ^ Only the most distinct of these are here 



^ This is described as typical C. Goveniana, by Jepson, loc. cit. 153. 

 2 Beissner, Handbuch, describes 77 varieties and forms, but many are scarcely 

 Avorth distinguishing. 



