CUPRESSUS MACNABJANA. 



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Cupressus Macnabiana. 



A medium-sized tree rarely exceeding 30 feet high, with a short trunk 

 12 15 inches in diameter; often a shrub with numerous stems 6 12 

 feet high forming a broad, open, irregular head. Bark cinnamon-brown 

 broken into broad ridges. Branchlets slender with orange-red bark 

 which soon changes to dark brown. Leaves dimorphic ; on the axial 

 shoots more or less elongated, concrescent but free at the acute tip ; 

 on the short lateral growths minute, scale-like, ovate-subulate, acute, 

 light bluish green. Staminate flowers with six eight very minute 



Fig. 61. Cupressus Maenabiana. 

 (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



stamens. Strobiles on short peduncles, sub-globose, O75 1 inch in 

 diameter, composed of six eight rugose, pale brown scales mostly of 

 oblong shape, each with a prominent conical umbo and bearing numerous 

 seeds furnished with narrow wings. 



Cupressus Macnabiana, Murray in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. I. 293, t. 11 (1855). 

 Lindley in Gard. Chron. 1855, p. 420. Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 165. 

 Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 473. Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 90. Brewer and 

 Watson, Bot. Califor. II. 114. Masters in Gard. Chron. IX. ser. 3 (1891), p. 403. 

 with fig. (Nabiana) ; Journ. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 206 ; and Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 XXXI. 347, with fig. Beissner, Nadelholzk. 100. Sargent, Silva N. Amer. X. 

 109, t. 528. 



