CONIFER, 
SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 
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CUPRESSUS MACROCARPA. 
Monterey Cypress. 
Fruit large. Branchlets stout. 
Cupressus macrocarpa, Gordon, Jour. Hort. Soc. Lond. 
iv. 296, f. (1849) ; Pinetwm, 65. — Lindley & Gordon, 
Jour. Hort. Soc. Lond. v. 206. — Knight, Syn. Conif. 
20.— Bentham, Pl. Hartweg. 337.— Torrey, Bot. Mex. 
Bound. Surv. 211. — Henkel & Hochstetter, Syn. Nadelh. 
239. — (Nelson) Senilis, Pinacee, 73. — Hoopes, Hver- 
greens, 353. — Parlatore, De Candolle Prodr. xvi. pt. ii. 
473. — K. Koch, Dendr. ii. pt. ii. 148. — Engelmann, 
Brewer & Watson Bot. Cal. ii. 113. — Veitch, Man. 
Conif. 234. — Lawson, Pinetum Brit. ii. 195, t. 32. — 
Sargent, Forest Trees N. Am. 10th Census U. S.ix.179. — 
Lemmon, Rep. California State Board Forestry, iii. 180, 
t. 25, 26 (Cone-Bearers of California) ; West-American 
Cone-Bearers, 76. — Mayr, Wald. Nordam. 271, £. 8. — 
Beissner, Handb. Nadelh. 103. — Masters, Jour. R. Hort. 
Soc. xiv. 206; Jour. Linn. Soc. xxxi. 342 (excel. var. 
Guadeloupensis and var. Farallonensis). — Hansen, Jour. 
Leaves dark green, obscurely glandular. 
fi. Hort. Soc. xiv. 286 (Pinetum Danicum). — Koehne, 
Deutsche Dendr. 50. 
Cupressus macrocarpa, var. fastigiata, Knight, Syn. 
Conif. 20 (1850). — Parlatore, De Candolle Prodr. xvi. 
pt. ii. 473. — Veitch, Man. Conif. 234. 
Cupressus torulosa, Lindley & Paxton, Fl. Gard. i. 167, 
f. 105 (not D. Don) (1851) ; #2. des Serres, vii. 192, f. — 
The Garden, xxvii. 39, f. 
Cupressus Lambertiana, Carritre, Traité Conif. 124 
(1855) ; Rev. Hort. 1855, 233. 
Cupressus Lambertiana, var. fastigiata, Carriére, Traité 
Conif. 124 (1855). 
Cupressus Hartwegii, Carritre, Rev. Hort. 1855, 233: 
Traité Conif. ed. 2, 168. 
Cupressus Hartwegii, var. fastigiata, Carritre, Ziaité 
Conif. ed. 2, 169 (1867). 
Cupressus macrocarpa, var. Lambertiana, Masters, 
Jour. Linn. Soc. xxxi. 343 (1896). 
A tree, often sixty or seventy feet in height, with a short trunk two or three, or exceptionally five 
or six feet in diameter ; while it is young the branches are slender and erect, forming a narrow or 
broad bushy pyramidal head, and when uncrowded by other trees they become stout and spreading in 
old age, and form a broad flat-topped head.’ The bark of the trunk is from three quarters of an inch 
to an inch in thickness, and irregularly divided into broad flat connected ridges, which separate freely 
into narrow elongated thick persistent scales; on young stems and on the upper branches it is dark red- 
brown, but on old and storm-worn trees becomes at last almost white. The branchlets are stout, and 
when the leaves fall, at the end of three or four years, are covered with thin light or dark reddish 
brown bark, which separates sparingly into small papery scales. 
appressed or slightly spreading at the acute apex, thickened on the back, which is obscurely glandular- 
pitted, and frequently marked with two longitudinal furrows, about an eighth of an inch long, and 
The leaves are broadly ovate, closely 
dark green; those on young plants are spreading and acicular, prominently ridged below, and from one 
quarter to one half of an inch in length. The flowers are yellow, and open late in February or early in 
March. The staminate flowers are oblong, quadrangular, and an eighth of an inch long, with six or 
eight decussately opposite stamens, their broadly ovate peltate connectives, which are slightly erose on the 
margins, bearing four or five dark orange-colored pollen-sacs. The pistillate flowers are oblong and 
about an eighth of an inch in length, with spreading acuminate scales. 
second season, and is clustered, is raised on a stout peduncle from a quarter to a third of an inch in 
length, and is oblong, from an inch to an inch and a half long, and about two thirds of an inch broad, 
with four or six pairs of scales, slightly puberulous, especially on the margins, furnished with broadly 
The fruit, which ripens in the 
ovate thickened or occasionally on the upper scales subconical bosses, the scales of the upper and lower 
pairs being smaller than the others and sterile. About twenty seeds are produced under each fertile 
scale; they are angled by mutual pressure, light chestnut-brown, and about three sixteenths of an inch 
lone. 
° 1 Hooker f. Gard. Chron. n. ser. xxiii. 176, f. 34. — Garden and Forest, vii. 241, f. 7. 
