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CUPRESSUS NOOTKATENSIS. 
Yellow Cypress. Sitka Cypress. 
BRANCHLETS stout, slightly flattened or subterete. Leaves usually eglandular. 
Cupressus Nootkatensis, Lambert, Pinus, ii. 18 (1824).— 
Nuttall, Sylva, iii. 105. — K. Koch, Dendr. ii. pt. ii. 
165.— Lauche, Deutsche Dendr. ed. 2, 64, £. 7. — Masters, 
Thuya excelsa, Bongard, Mém. Phys. et Nat. Pt. 2, Acad. 
Sci. St. Pétersbourg, ti. 164 (Vég. Siteha) (1831). 
Cupressus Nutkatensis, Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 165 
Jour. KR. Hort. Soc. xiv. 206; Jour. Linn. Soe. xxxi. 352. 
Chamecyparis Nutkatensis, Spach, Hist. Vég. xi. 333 
(1842). — Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 62. — Ledebour, FY. 
Foss. iii. 680. — Lindley & Gordon, Jour. Hort. Soc. 
Lond. v. 207. — Carriere, Traité Conif. 134. — Wal- 
pers, Ann. v. 796. — Henkel & Hochstetter, Syn. Nadelh. 
(1839). — Newberry, Pacific R. R. Rep. vi. pt. iii. 63, f. 
28. — Gordon, Pinetwm, 66. — (Nelson) Senilis, Pinacee, 
74. — Hoopes, Hvergreens, 345. — Lawson, Pinetum 
Brit. ii. 199, t. 34, f. 1-12. — Veitch, Man. Conif. 235. — 
Schiibeler, Virid. MNorveg. i. 373. —Koehne, Deutsche 
Dendr. 50, £. 19. 
250. — Parlatore, De Candolle Prodr. xvi. pt. ii. 465. — 
Sargent, Forest Trees N. Am. 10th Census U. S. ix. 
178.— Mayr, Wald. Nordam. 344, t. 6, £.— Beissner, 
Handb. Nadeth. 79, £. 18, 19. — Hansen, Jour. R. Hort. 
Soc. xiv. 280 (Pinetum Danicum). 
Cupressus Americana, Trautvetter, Pl. Imag. Fl. Russ. 
12, t. 7 (1844). 
Thuiopsis borealis, Carritre, Traité Conif. 113 (1855). 
Chamecyparis Nutkaensis, 6 glauca, Walpers, Ann. v. 
796 (1858). 
A tree, often one hundred and twenty feet in height, with a tall trunk five or six feet in diameter, 
horizontal branches which form a narrow pyramidal head, stout distichous branchlets, and crowded 
elongated deciduous spray. The bark of the trunk is from one half to three quarters of an inch in 
thickness, light gray tinged with brown, irregularly fissured, and separated on the surface into large 
loose thin scales which in falling disclose the bright cimnamon-red inner bark. The branchlets are 
comparatively stout, somewhat flattened or subterete, light yellow often tinged with red when they first 
appear, dark or bright red-brown during their third season, when they are clothed with dead leaves, and 
ultimately paler and covered with close thin smooth bark. The leaves are ovate, long-pointed, rounded, 
eglandular or glandular-pitted on the back, dark blue-green, closely appressed, and about an eighth of 
an inch long, or on the vigorous leading branchlets somewhat spreading and often a quarter of an inch 
in length, with more elongated and sharper points; beginning to die at the end of their second year, 
they usually fall during the third season ; those on seedling plants are acicular, spreading, light green, 
and from one quarter to one half of an inch in length. The flowers open in very early spring on 
lateral branchlets of the previous year, the staminate usually on the lower and the pistillate clustered 
near the ends of the upper branchlets. The staminate flower is oblong, nearly a quarter of an inch 
in length, and composed of four or five pairs of stamens, with ovate rounded slightly erose light 
yellow connectives more or less covered with a dark blotch and bearing usually two pollen-sacs. 
The pistillate flower is one sixteenth of an inch long and consists of ovate acute spreading dark liver- 
colored scales, the fertile bearing at their base from two to four ovules each. The fruit, which ripens 
in September and October, is subglobose, nearly half an inch in diameter, surrounded at the base by 
the slightly enlarged upper leaves of the branchlet, dark red-brown, and covered by a thick glaucous 
or blue bloom, with usually four or six scales, which are tipped with prominent erect pointed bosses, 
and are frequently covered with conspicuous resin-glands. From two to four seeds are produced under 
each fertile scale ; they are ovate, acute, slightly flattened, about a quarter of an inch long, dark red- 
brown, and furnished with thin light red-brown wings often nearly twice as wide as the body of the 
seed. 
