EUCALYPTUS TREES. 193 
Cephalotaxus Fortunei, Hook.—China and Japan. 
This splendid yew attains a height of sixty feet, and 
is very hardy. 
Cryptomeria Japonica, Don.—Japan and Northern 
China. <A slender evergreen tree, one hundred feet 
high. It requires forest valleys for successful growth. 
The wood is compact, very white, soft and easy to 
work. 
Cupressus Benthami, Endl.—Mexico, at five to 
seven thousand feet. A beautiful tree, sixty feet high. 
The wood is fine-grained and exceedingly durable. 
Cupressus Lawsoniana, Murr. (Chameecyparis 
Lawsoniana, Parl.)—Northern California. This is a 
splendid red-flowered cypress, growing one hundred 
feet high, with a stem of two feet in diameter, and 
furnishes. a valuable timber for building purposes, 
being clear and easily worked. 
Cupressus Lindleyi, Klotzsch. —On the mountains 
of Mexico, <A stately cypress, up to one hundred and 
twenty feet high. It supplies an excellent timber. 
Cupressus macrocarpa, Hartw. (C. Lambertiana, 
Gord. )—Upper California. This beautiful and shady 
tree attains the height of one hundred and fifty feet, 
with astem of nine feet in circumference, and is one 
of the quickest-growing of all conifers, even in poor, 
dry soil. 
Cupressus Nutkaensis, Lamb. (Chameecyparis Nut- 
kaensis, Spach.)—North - west America. Height of 
tree one hundred feet. Wood used for boat-building 
and other purposes ; the bast for mats and ropes. 
Cupressus obtusa, F. von Muell. (Retinospora ob- 
tusa, S. & Z.)—Japan. Attains a height of eighty 
feet; stem five feet in circumference. It forms a 
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