CONIFER. SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 109 
CUPRESSUS MACNABIANA. 
Cypress. 
Fruit large. Branchlets slender. Leaves dark green, often glaucous, conspicu- 
ously glandular. 
Cupressus Macnabiana, A. Murray, Edinburgh New Soc. xxxi. 347, f. 23, 24. — Hansen, Jour. R. Hort. Soc. xiv. 
Phil. Jour. n. ser. i. 293, t. 11 (1855). — Gard. Chron. 286 (Pinetum Danicum). — Koehne, Deutsche Dendr. 
1855, 420.— Gordon, Pinetum, 64.— Carriere, Traité 50. — Lemmon, West-American Cone-Bearers, 77. 
Conf. ed. 2, 165; Rev. Hort. 1870, 155, £. 26.— Hoopes, Cupressus glandulosa, Henkel & Hochstetter, Syn. Na- 
Evergreens, 353. — Parlatore, De Candolle Prodr. xvi. delh. 241 (1865). 
pt. i. 473. —K. Koch, Dendr. ii. pt. ii. 150.— Engel- Cupressus Californica gracilis (Nelson) Senilis, Pina- 
mann, Brewer & Watson Bot. Cal. ii. 114. — Veitch, cee, 70 (in part) (1866). 
Man. Conif. 233.— Sargent, Forest Trees N. Am. 10th Cupressus Nabiana, Masters, Gard. Chron. ser. 3, ix. 403, 
Census U. S. ix. 180. — Beissner, Handb. Nadelh. f. 90 (1891). 
100. — Masters, Jour. R. Hort. Soc. xiv. 206; Jour. Linn. 
A bushy tree, rarely thirty feet in height, with a short trunk twelve or fifteen inches in diameter ; 
or more often a shrub with numerous stems from six to twelve feet tall forming a broad open irregular 
head. The bark of the trunk is thin, dark reddish brown, and broken into broad flat ridges, which form 
a network of diamond-shaped depressions, and separate on the surface into elongated thin slightly 
attached long-persistent scales. The branchlets are slender, and are covered with close smooth compact 
bark, which is bright purplish red after the fallmg of the leaves, but soon becomes dark brown. The 
leaves are ovate, acute or rounded at the apex, rounded and conspicuously glandular on the back, 
closely appressed, or on vigorous young shoots long-pointed and more or less spreading, deep green, 
and often slightly glaucous, and usually not more than a sixteenth of an inch in length. The flowers 
open in March and April. The staminate flowers are nearly cylindrical, obtuse, and about a sixteenth 
of an inch long, with broadly ovate rounded peltate connectives; and the pistillate are subglobose and a 
sixteenth of an inch long, with broadly ovate scales short-pointed and rounded at the apex. The fruit 
is oblong, from three quarters of an inch to an inch in length, subsessile or raised on a rather slender 
peduncle often a quarter of an inch in length, dark reddish brown, more or less covered with a 
glaucous bloom, and slightly puberulous, especially along the margims of the scales; these are six or 
rarely eight in number, with prominent bosses, which are thin and recurved on the lower scales, and 
much thickened, conical and more or less incurved at the apex on the upper scales. The seeds are 
numerous, dark chestnut-brown, variously flattened by mutual pressure, usually rather less than a 
sixteenth of an inch long, and furnished with narrow wings. 
Cupressus Macnabiana, which is one of the rarest trees of California, is now known to inhabit 
only a few dry slopes on the hills south and west of Clear Lake in Lake County.’ At the southern 
base of Mt. Shasta, where it was discovered by Mr. William Murray in the autumn of 1854, it has not 
been again seen. 
The wood of Cupressus Macnabiana is light, soft, very close-grained, and pale brown, with thick 
nearly white sapwood; it contains narrow dark-colored conspicuous bands of small summer-cells and 
thin obscure medullary rays. The specific gravity of the absolutely dry wood is 0.5575, a cubic foot 
weighing 34.74 pounds.’ 
Introduced by its discoverer into English gardens, Cupressus Jlacnabiana is occasionally culti- 
vated in western and southern Europe. 
1 Purdy, Garden and Forest, ix. 232. 2 Garden and Forest, iii. 355. 
