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Cucurbita moschata, Duchesne. 



The Musky Gourd. Doubtless also from the Orient. 



Cucurbita Pepo, Linne. 



The Pumpkin and Vegetable Marrow. Countries on the Caspian 

 Sea. Its naturalisation in the desert would be a boon. The seeds 

 on pressure yield a fixed oil ; they are also anthelminthic. It yields 

 with many other Cucurbitacese much honey for bees. C. melano- 

 sperma, A. Braun, is not edible. 



Cudrania Javensis, Trecul. 



New South Wales and Queensland, South and East Asia to Japan, 

 East Africa. This climbing thorny shrub can be utilised for hedges. 

 Fruit edible, of pleasant taste ; the root furnishes a yellow dye. 



Cuminum Cyminum, Linne. 



North Africa. The fruits of this annual herb are known as Cumin 

 and used for certain condiments, as also in medicine. Cuminum 

 Hispanicum, Merat, is similar. Essential oil peculiar. 



Cupressus Benthami, Endlicher. 



Mexico at 5,000 to 7,000 feet. A beautiful tree 60 feet high. The 

 wood is fine-grained and exceedingly durable. 



Cupressus Lawsoniana, Murray. (Chamcecyparis Lawsoniana, Parl.) 



Northern California. This is a splendid red-flowered Cypress, 

 growing 100 feet high, with a stem of 2 feet in diameter, and fur- 

 nishes a valuable timber for building purposes, being clear, easily 

 worked, free of knots, elastic, and very durable. (Sargent.) 



Cupressus Lindleyi, Klotzsch. 



On the mountains of Mexico. A stately Cypress up to 120 feet high. 

 It supplies an excellent timber. 



Cupressus macrocarpa, Hartweg.* (C. Lambertiana, Gordon.) 



California, from Monterey to Noyo, in the granite as well as sand- 

 stone formation; sometimes in Sphagnum-moors. This beautiful 

 and shady tree attains the height of 150 feet, with a stem of 9 feet 

 in circumference, and is one of the quickest growing of all conifers, 

 even in poor, dry soil. One of the best shelter trees on sea-sands, 

 naturally following the coast-line, never extending many miles from 

 the shore, and occurring in localities where the temperature does 

 not rise above 80 F., nor sinks below the freezing point (Bolander). 

 Richer in its yield of tar than the Scotch Fir, according to American 

 writers. 





