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scales, flat, and ear-shaped, with a bony shell and membranous 

 wings along each side, frequently much broader than the seeds, 

 and cut more or less sloping at top and bottom. 



A line tree, growing in favourable situations from two and a 



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half to four feet in diameter, and rising to a height of from 80 

 to 100 feet, with a straight stem, covered with rather a soft, 

 smooth, dark-coloured bark, and well furnished with an ample 

 branching and much-divided head; timber white and soft, but 

 affording, in considerable quantities, a strong aromatic balsam, 

 somewhat resembling the Canadian balsam in taste and smell. 



It is found along the north-west coast of North America, 

 particularly at Nootka Sound, in Observatory Inlet, and on the 

 Island of Sitcha, and is called " Tchugatskoy " (the Savin, or 

 strong-scented Fir) by the Russian settlers on the Island of 

 Sitcha, and about Nootka Sound, and was first introduced into 

 England in 1851, through the Russian garden at St. Peters- 

 burgh, under the improper name of Thuiopsis Borealis, a name 

 given to it by the late Dr. Fischer. 



It is quite hardy, and has the following variety : 



CUPRESSUS NUTKAENSIS VAR1EGATA, Eort. 



Syn. Thuiopsis Borealis variegata, Hort. 

 ., Cupressus Nutkaensis argentea, Hort. 



This variety differs in having a considerable number of the 

 ends of the smaller branchlets of a pale yellow, or white colour 

 intermixed with the ordinary green ones. 



No. 14. Cupressus sempervirens, L., the Upright Cypress. 



Syn. C. fastigiata, D. C. 

 C. stricta, Miller. 

 C. pyramidalis, Tozzett. 

 C. Tournefortii, Aiulibcii. 

 C. fcemina, Ccesalpin. 



Leaves imbricated, in four rows, small, deep, shining green, 

 j closely pressed to the stem, convex, blunt, or pointed on young 



