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3. C. sargentii Jepson n. nom. SARGENT CYPRESS. Shrub or small tree with 

 compact crown, 8 to 15 feet high ; bark grayish brown and fibrous ; leaves with 

 a closed dorsal pit, rarely with lateral depressions, about y 2 line long; cones 

 globose, often congested in heavy clusters, shortly peduncled, 8 to 11 lines in 

 diameter; scales 6 or 8, with a very small low upwardly impressed crescent- 

 shaped umbo; seeds brown, acutely margined, iy 2 to 2 lines long. (Frutex 

 vel arbor parva 8 ad 15 ped. alta ; cortex cinereofuscus fibratusque ; folia circa 

 3/2 lin- longa cum alveolis dorsuali clauso, infrequenter cum cavis lateralibus; 

 coni globosi saspe valde aggregati, breviter pedunculi, 8 and 10 lin. in diametro ; 

 squamae 6 ad 8 cum umbone paululo, brevi, lunato atque de infra impresso; 

 semina fusca acute marginata iy 2 ad 2 lin. longa). 



Dry mountain slopes: Mayacamas Eange, W.L.J. no. 3027 (type); west 

 side Mt. Tamalpais ; Cedar Mt., Alameda Co. ; Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz Mts. ; 

 Los Burros Trail, Santa Lucia Mts. Localities few and isolated. 



Eefs. CUPRESSUS SARGENTII Jepson. C. goveniana Engelmann in Bot. Cal. vol. 2, p. 114, 

 exclusive of Monterey plants; Sargent^ Silva N. Am. vol. 10, p. 107, t. 527 (1896); Jepson, 

 Fl. W. Mid. Cal. p. 25 (1901). 



4. C. macnabiana Murr. McNAB CYPRESS. Shrub or tree most commonly 

 15 to 25 but even 40 feet high with trunk !/4 to nearly 2 feet in diameter ; bark 

 light gray and very smooth; foliage pungently fragrant with a spicy odor; 

 leaves y 2 line long with a conspicuous resin pit or white gland on the back 

 towards the apex, often slightly glaucous; cones globose, clustered, short- 

 peduncled, 5 to 8 lines in diameter, reddish or grayish brown; scales 6 to 8 

 with strong conical umbos, the uppermost pair very prominent or horn-like 

 and incurved; seeds brown, iy 2 to mostly 2 lines long. 



Samuels Springs (Napa Co.) to Coyote Valley; Red Mt., Bartlett Creek and 

 northward to Whiskeytown, Shasta Co. (type loc.), and near Dobbin and 

 Magalia in northern Sierra foothills. 



Refs. CUPRESSUS MACNABIANA Murray, Edin. New Phil. Jour. vol. i, p. 293, pi. 11 (1855) ; 

 Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. p. 25 (1901). 



5. C. bakerii Jepson n. sp. MODOC CYPRESS. Shrub or becoming a small tree 

 25 feet high with red-brown bark and very slender branchlets; leaves with a 

 distinct resin pit on middle of keeled back ; staminate catkins 1 line long or 

 less; cones globose, satiny or glaucous, 5 to 6 lines in diameter; scales 3 pair 

 or with a fourth smaller upper pair; umbos abruptly drawn to a short point, 

 either nipple-like or compressed, straight or slightly curved; seeds brown, 

 li/o lines long, narrowly Aving-margined. (Frutex vel arbor parva 25 ped. 

 alta ; cortex ruf o-fuscus ; ramusculi tenuissimi ; folia glandula distincta resin- 

 feraque in medio carinato dorso; amenta staminata 1 lin. vel minus longa; 

 coni globosi, nitidi vel glauci, 4 ad 6 lin. in diametro; tria paria squamarum 

 vel quartum par minor supra ; umbones abrupte contracti ad apicem vel papil- 

 lati vel compressi, recti vel leniter unci; semina fusca iy 2 lin. longa, anguste 

 marginata ala). 



Lava beds of southeastern Siskiyou and southwestern Modoc cos. Between 

 Little Hot Spring Valley and Hills Farm, it is associated with Juniper. Yellow 

 Pine and Knob-cone Pine (M. S. Baker). 



5. JUNIPERUS L. JUNIPER. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves in whorls of 3 or opposite, scale-like, imbricated, 

 closely appressed and adnate to the branchlets or linear-subulate and spread- 

 ing. Stamens and ovules on separate trees. Staminate catkins with many 



