Cupressus lI 7S 



moss ; while on the western side there is a dense thicket of cypress bushes, 6 to 8 ft. 

 high in exposed situations and 15 ft. high in the gullies. Seedlings were observed 

 in areas swept by fire ; and a few seeds carried down the stream to the gravelly 

 flats in the valley had produced a grove of handsome pyramidal specimens. Miss 

 Eastwood ' says that this cypress is more partial to the banks of streams than to 

 dry slopes, and is often associated with C. Goveniana, though no hybrids have been 

 observed. She mentions trees 30 to 40 ft. high between Hopland and Highland 

 Springs, - ery unsymmetrical and loosely branching in habit. M'Lean found it 

 on the road from Callistoga to the Etna mines, and Dr. Parry collected it at Chico, 

 in Butte County. 



This species was discovered by Jeffrey 2 in the Sierra Nevada in 1853, anc * was 

 found soon afterwards in 1854 by W. Murray. 3 Lobb sent seeds in the latter year 

 to Messrs. Veitch, who raised young plants, 4 remarkable, according to Lindley, for 

 their glaucous green foliage and deep rich brown branchlets. They appear 5 to have 

 borne without injury the severe winter of i860. This cypress appears to be short- 

 lived, 6 and having been neglected for many years, has almost gone out of cultivation, 

 the best specimen we know being one at Highnam, 30 ft. high, forking near the 

 ground, with the main stem 2 ft. 8 in. in girth at 18 in. from the base. This was 

 bearing young and old cones -and staminate flowers in February, 19 10. A slender 

 tree 7 in Kew Gardens, with wide spreading branches is about 20 ft. high ; and 

 another 8 at Brickendon Grange, Herts, 25 ft. high, and bearing fruit in 1909, 

 is said to have been planted in i860. There is also a small tree 15 ft. high at 

 Bicton. Another about 8 ft. high, at Nymans, Handcross, was badly injured by 

 frost last winter. 



Elwes collected a specimen bearing fruit at Angers, France, in September, 

 1907. (A. H.) 



1 In Zoe, v. 11 (1900). 



1 Jeffrey's account of his specimen, taken from the advice note of his packet of plants sent in 1853, is : "Juniperus, No. 

 1481, Sierra Nevada mountains, growing in barren sandy places. Tree 15 ft. high, 1 ft. diameter, Oct. 1st, 1853." 



3 In Card. Ckron. 1855, p. 420, the locality where Murray found the plant is said to be, " In California, about lat. 41, 

 at 5000 ft. elevation." 



4 Lindley had described these young plants as C. nivalis, but was anticipated in his publication of this name by A. 

 Murray's C. Macnabiana. 



6 Gard. Chron. i860, pp. 336, 362. 



6 Those in the Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin and Edinburgh died many years ago. In the Kew herbarium there is a 

 specimen dated 1878, from a tree 10 ft. high, growing at the upper end of the lake at Tortworth Court; but it is no longer 

 living. 



7 Obtained from Smith of Worcester in 1881. 



8 Growing at the margin of a plantation. There were formerly two much finer specimens here, growing on the lawn, 

 which were removed some years ago. 



