114 CONIFERS. Cupressus. 



obscurely pitted on the back, often with a longitudinal furrow on each side : scales 

 of very young cones with conspicuous foliaceous tips ; mature cones clustered on 

 short stout peduncles, oblong-ovate (1 to 1^ inches long by 9 lines broad), of 5 or 

 usually 6 pairs of scales, with a broad thickish or on the uppermost a subconical 

 boss : seeds numerous (about 20 to each scale), mostly 2-| lines long. Journ. Hort. 

 Soc. ii. 187 ; Gordon, same, iv. 296, with tig. ; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 211 ; Parla- 

 tore, DC. Prodr. xvi 2 . 473. C. Lambertiana, Gord. ; Carr. Conif. 124. C. Hart- 

 ivegii, Carr. Conif. 2 ed. 168. 



On granite rocks near the sea, from Point Pinos near Monterey southward 4 or 5 miles to Pesca- 

 dero Ranch. The trees at this the only certain locality very much resemble the Cedar of Lebanon 

 in habit, with dense far-spreading branches. The largest measurement recorded (by Prof. W. H. 

 Brewer) is a circumference of 18jf feet at a height of 5 or 6 feet from the ground. It was early 

 introduced into England and is then frequent in cultivation under various forms and names. 



2. C. G-oveniana, Gordon. A shrub or small bushy tree, 6 to 10 feet high or 

 more ; branches spreading and somewhat pendulous ; branchlets rather more slender 

 than in the last, and the leaves slightly smaller, thick and mostly without lateral 

 depressions, the dorsal gland often wanting or very obscure : mature cones smaller, 

 globose (8 to 10 lines in diameter), of 6 or 8 scales: seeds mostly 1J to 2 lines 

 long. Journ. Hort. Soc. iv. 296, with fig. ; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 211 ; Parlat. 

 1. c. 472. 



In the Coast Ranges from about Monterey to Sonoma County. In Marin County it is said to 

 sometimes attain a height of 40 or 50 feet (6f. R. Vasey). A doubtful form is reported from 

 Cedar Mountain, Alameda County (Dr. Kcllotjg), described as a handsome tree 30 or 40 feet high, 

 of dense symmetrical growth ; the globose cones have 6 very thick scales with stout prominent 

 bosses. To this species also probably belongs the cypress of the mountains of San Diego County, 

 which is a low and slender tree, 15 or 20 feet high, with nearly smooth reddish bark, and slender 

 branchlets : leaves with usually a conspicuous gland ; cones rather large (9 to 12 lines in diame- 

 ter), globose, with 6 very thick scales ; seeds very numerous, 2 lines long. 



C. GUADALUPENSIS, Watson, is another similar species, of Guadalupe Island (Palmer), a widely 

 spreading tree, 40 feet high or more and 2 to 5 feet in diameter, the bark flaking off in thin 

 plates and leaving a smooth claret-red surface : branches drooping and branchlets very slender : 

 foliage glaucous-green ; glands obscure : cones globose and strongly bossed, ari inch or more in 

 diameter, of 6 or 8 very thick scales : seeds large, 3 lines long or more. In cultivation about San 

 Francisco, and will probably prove a valuable ornamental tree. 



3. C. Macnabiana, Murr. A shrub or small tree (6 to 10 feet high or more), 

 with numerous short slender branchlets : leaves very small, deep green and somewhat 

 glaucous, conspicuously pitted on the back : mature cones small (6 to 8 lines in 

 diameter), subglobose ; scales 6, or rarely 8, with thin prominent bosses, the upper- 

 most usually very prominent and incurved : seeds very numerous, 1 \ or mostly 2 

 lines long. Edinb. New Phil. Journ. i. 293, t. 10; Parlat. 1. c. 473. 



About Clear Lake (Torrcy, Bolandcr); originally reported by Jeffrey from Mount Shasta at 

 5,000 feet altitude. 



3. CHABfLffiJCYPARIS, Spach. 



With the characters of Cupressus, but with flattened 2-ranked branchlets and the 

 small globose cones maturing the first year; seeds few (1 to 4) at the base of each 

 obpyramidal thinner scale, angled or more or less winged ; anther-cells 2 or 3 to 

 each connective-scale. Retinospora, Sieb. & Zucc. 



Represented in the Atlantic States by a single species, and by 4 or 5 species in Japan and 

 Eastern Asia, besides the following of the Pacific Coast. 



1. C. Lawsoniana, Parlat. A tree, often tall (sometimes 100 to 150 feet high by 

 2 to" 6 feet in diameter), with slender spreading or pendulous branches : leaves small, 

 deep green, with a glaucous margin when young, acute or acutish, more or less glandu- 

 lar-pitted : cones 4 lines in diameter, glaucous when young, of 8 or 10 scales with 

 the flattened summit crossed by a narrow transverse ridge acute in the middle : seeds 



