CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 179 



PORT ORFORD CEDAR S OREGON CEDAR. WHITE CEDAR. LAWSON'S CYPRESS. GINGER PINE. 



Oregon, Coos bay, south to the valley of the Rogue river, not extending more than thirty miles from the coast; 

 California, valley of the upper Sacramento river (shores of Castle and Soda lakes, Shasta county). 



A large tree of the first economic value, 45 to 61 meters in height, with a trunk 1.80 to 4 meters in diameter; 

 rich woods, in low, moist soil, interspersed with the yellow lir and hemlock; most common and reaching its 

 greatest development along the Oregon coast; local; in California very rare and local. 



Wood light, hard, strong, very close-grained, compact, easily worked, very durable in contact with the ground, 

 abounding in odoriferous resin, satiny, susceptible of a beautiful polish ; layers of small summer cells thin, not 

 conspicuous; medullary rays numerous, very obscure ; color, light yellow or almost white, the thin sap-wood hardly 

 distinguishable; specific gravity, 0.4621; ash, 0.10; largely manufactured into lumber and used for interior finish, 

 flooring, railway ties, fence posts, matches, and in ship- and boat-building; the resin strongly diuretic and a 

 powerful insecticide. 



332. Cupressijs macrocarpa, Hartwejr, 



Jonr. Hort. Soc. London, ii, 187. Beutham, PL Hartweg. 337. Gordon in Jour. Hort. Soc. London, iv, 296 & t. ; Pinetniu, 65 ; 2 ed. 

 91. Liudley & Gordon in Jonr. Hort. Soc. London, v, 20fi. Knight, Syn. Conii'. 20. Torrey, Bot. Mcx. Boundary Survey, 211. 

 Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 263 ; Proc. California Acad. iii, 290. Carriere, Trait. Conif. 1 ed. 124, in part. Bolander in Proc. 

 California Acad. iii, 228. Henkel & Hocbstetter, Nadelholz. 239. Nelson, Pinacea-, 73. Hoopes, Evergreens, 353. Parlatore in 

 De Candolle, Prodr. xvi 2 , 473. Fowler in London Card. Chronicle, 1&72, 285. Koch, Dendrologie, ii 1 , 148. Vasey, Cat. Forest 

 Trees, 36. Watson, Bot. California, ii, 113. Veiteh, Manual Conif. 234. Lawson Pinetum Brit, ii, 195, t. 32. 



C. Lambertiana, Carru-re in Rev. Hort. 1855, 232 ; Trait. Conif. 124 ; 2 ed. 166. 

 C. Hartwegii, Carriere in Rev. Hort. 1855, 232 ; Trait. Conif. 2 ed. 168. 



tC. macrocarpa, var. fastigiata, Knight, Conif. 20. Parlatore in De Candolle, Prodr. xvi, 473. Veitch, Manual 

 Conif. 234. 



fC. Hartwegii, var. fastigia ta, Carriere, Trait. Conif. 2 ed. 169. 



MONTEREY CYPRESS. 



California, Monterey (Cypress point, Pescadero ranch, and Carmelo point). 



A tree 15 to 21 meters in height, with a trunk 1.20 to 1.80 meter in diameter ; on granite rocks immediately 

 upon the sea-coast ; very local. 



Wood heavy, hard, strong, rather brittle, very close-grained, compact, easily worked, very durable in contact 

 with the soil, satiny, susceptible of a beautiful polish, odorous ; bands of small summer cells thin, dark colored, 

 conspicuous; medullary rays numerous, hardly distinguishable; color, clear bright brown streaked with red and 

 yellow, the thin sap-wood light yellow ; specific gravity, 0.6261 ; ash, 0.57 ; very beautiful and of undoubted value 

 as a cabinet wood. 



333. Cupressus Goveniana, Gordon, 



Jour. Hort. Soc. London, iv, 296 <fe f. ; Pinetum, 60 ; 2 ed. 83. Bentham, PI. Hartweg. 337. Lindley &. Gordon in Jour. Hort. Soc. 

 London, v, 206. Carriere, Trait. Conif. 125 ; 2 ed. 170. Torrey, Mex. Boundary Survey, 211. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 

 266. Heukel & Hochstetter, Nadelholz. 240. Hoopes, Evergreens, 252. Parlatore in De Candolle, Prodr, xvi 2 , 472. Fowler in 

 London Gard. Chronicle, 1872, 285. Watson, Bot. California, ii, 114. Veitch, Manual Conif. 230. 



f C. Californica, Carriere, Trait. Conif. 127; 2 ed. 164. 

 C. Californica gracilis, Nelson, Pinacea, 70, in part 

 f C. COrnitta, Carriere in Rev. Hort. 1866,251 & f. 

 f Juniperus aromatica, Hort. 



Humboldt county, California, south along the coast and through the Coast ranges into Lower California. 



A small tree, sometimes 12 to 15 meters in height, with a trunk 0.60 to 0.90 meter in diameter ; borders of 

 streams and mountain slopes, in rather rich soil, or often a low shrub, fruiting when 0.30 to 1 meter in height, and 

 occupying extensive tracts of sandy barrens 1 to 5 miles inland from the coast, or thin, rocky soil (Pringle) ; 

 widely but not generally distributed. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, brittle, close-grained, compact; bands of small summer cells broad, dark colored, 

 conspicuous ; medullary rays thin, obscure ; color, light brown, the thick sap-wood nearly white ; specific gravity, 

 0.4689; ash, 0.45. 



