108 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. CONIFER. 
brown, with thick nearly white sapwood, and contains broad dark-colored conspicuous bands of small 
summer-cells and thin obscure medullary rays. The specific gravity of the absolutely dry wood is 
0.4689, a cubic foot weighing 29.22 pounds. 
Cupressus Goveniana was discovered in 1846 by Karl Theodor Hartweg, by whom it was 
introduced into English gardens. It has proved hardy in western and southern Europe, where it is 
frequently cultivated as an ornamental tree,’ and has attained a large size and produced its fruit. 
Forms abnormal in habit and in the color of the foliage which have appeared in European nurseries are 
occasionally cultivated.’ 
The specific name commemorates the services to horticulture of James Robert Gowen.’ 
1 Fowler, Gard. Chron. 1872, 285. Caernarvon” (Hooker, Bot. Mag. lxv. under t. 3676). Mr. Gowen 
2 See Carriére, ed. 2, 171. was a member of the council of the Horticultural Society of Lon- 
3 “Mr. Gowen is a gentleman of independent fortune, much de- don from 1836 to the end of 1856, and also served it as secretary. 
voted to Science, and well known in the most respectable circles in He was the author of several papers on the hybridization of 
London ; and under whose advice and direction many of the im- Amaryllis, published in the Transactions of this Society. 
provements at High Clere had been effected by the late Earl of 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Puate DXXVII. Cupressus GOVENIANA. 
. A flowering and fruiting branch, natural size. 
. A staminate flower, enlarged. 
. A stamen, front view, enlarged. 
. A pistillate flower, enlarged. 
. A scale of a pistillate flower with ovules, front view, enlarged. 
A seed, enlarged. 
. A seed, enlarged. 
. Vertical section of a seed, enlarged. 
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. An embryo, enlarged. 
ay 
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. A leaf, enlarged. 
an 
. Cross section of a branchlet, enlarged. 
