CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 179 



POET OKPOED CEDAK. OREGON OEDAB. AVHITE CEDAR. LAWSON'S OYPBESS. GINGER PINE. 



Oregon, Coos bay, south to the valley of the Eogue river, uot 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 iu diameter; 

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

 greatest developmeut 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 oiforiferous 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 liardly 

 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 boatbuilding; the resin strongly diuretic and a 

 powerful insecticide. 



332. Cupressus macrocarpa, Hartweg, 



Jonr. Hort. Soc. London, ii, 187. Bentham, PI. Hartweg. 337. Gordon iu Jour. Hort. Soc. London, iv, 296 & t. ; Pinetum, 65 ; 2 cd. 

 91. Lindley & Gordon in Jour. Hort. Soc. London, v, 206. Knight, Syn. Conif. 20. Torrey, Bot. Mex. Boundary Survey, 211. 

 Cooper in Smitlisoniau Eep. 1858, 2C3 ; Proc. California Acad, iii, 290. Carrifere, Trait. Conif. 1 ed. 124, in part. Bolander in Proc. 

 California Acad, iii, 228. Henkel & Hochstetter, Nadelholz. 239. Nelson, Pinacea), 73. Hoopes, Evrt^greens, 353. Parlatoro in 

 De Candolle, Prodr. xvi', 473. Fowler in London Gard. Chronicle, 1872, 285. Koch, Dendrologie, ii^, 148. Vasey, Cat. Forest 

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



C. Lamhertiana, Carrifere in Eev. Hort. 1855, 232; Trait. Conif. 124 ; 2 ed. 166. 

 C. Harhcegii, Carrifere in Rot. Hort. 1855, 232 ; Trait. Couif. 2 ed. 168. 



tC. macrocarpa, var. fasiigiata, Knight, Conif. 20. Parlatore in De Caudolle, Prodr. xvi', 473. Veitcb, Manual 

 Conif. 234. 



fC. Hartuegii, var. /%iate, Carrifere, Trait. Conif. 2 ed. 169. 



MONTEREY CYPRESS. 



California, Monterey (Cypress pointy 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 iu contact 

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

 conspicuous; medullary rays numerous, hardly distiuguishable; 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, 



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

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

 266. Henkel & Hochstetter, Nadelholz. 240. Hoopes, Evergreens, 2.52. Parlatore in De Caudolle, Prodr, xvi^, 472. Fowler iu 

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



f C. Cali/ornica, Carrifere, Trait. Couif. 127; 2 ed. 164. 





 C. Calif ornica gracilis, Nelson, Pinacea;, 70, iupprt 



/ C. COrnuta, Carrifere iu Rev. Hort. 1866, 251 & f. 

 t 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 li;cht, 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 neaily white; specific gravity, 

 0.4689; a.sh, 0.45. 



