CUPRESSUS 447 



C. MACNABIANA, Murray. MACNAB'S CYPRESS. 



A shrub or small bushy tree, sometimes 30 to 40 ft. high, ultimate divisions 

 of the spray very slender. Leaves about ^ in. long, scale-like, dark green, 

 thick, convex and blunt, with a conspicuous pit containing resin at the back. 

 Cones short-stalked, globose, about f in. across ; at first rather glaucous, 

 becoming brown ; scales usually six, rarely eight, those at the apex developing 

 thickened, horn-like crests, those at the base with thin, recurved bosses ; seeds 

 brown. 



Native of California ; discovered by Jeffrey in the Sierra Nevada in 1853, 

 introduced by W. Murray the following year for the Lawsons of Edinburgh. 

 It is now very rare in this country, and although apparently one of the hardiest 

 of the true cypresses, appears to be short-lived under cultivation. It is one of 

 the most easily recognised of a difficult group, first, by the resin pit at the 

 back of the leaf (quite conspicuous under the lens) ; second, by the prominent 

 horn-like development on the upper scales of the cone. The foliage has a 

 very pleasant aromatic fragrance. 



C. MACROCARPA, Hartweg. MONTEREY CYPRESS. 



(C. Lambertiana, Gordon?) . , 



A tree 60 to 90 ft. high in cultivation, not more in a wild state ; of 

 pyramidal habit when young, becoming eventually flat-topped and with 

 horizontal branches like a cedar of Lebanon. Branchlets much divided in an 

 irregular (not two-ranked or horizontal) manner ; the final ramifications terete 

 or somewhat four-sided, ^Q in. thick. Leaves scale-like, ^g- in. long, uniform, 

 closely flattened to the branchlet in four rows, overlapping each other at the 

 base, the exposed part diamond-shaped, thick and rounded at the end. Cones 

 oblong or globose, on short stout stalks ; I to ii ins. long, f to I in. wide ; 

 scales eight to fourteen, flattish, with a ridge-like projection in the centre. 

 Seeds brown, warted. 



Native of California, where it is confined to two groves near the Pacific, 

 south of Monterey. The larger, Cypress Point Grove, is 2 miles long and 

 about a furlong wide ; the other, Point Lobos Grove, is much smaller. The 

 trees grow on the shore cliffs, and being undermined by the sea, occasionally 

 fall into it. At this spot they appear as rugged veterans, identical in habit 

 with the cedar of Lebanon. The species was introduced about 1838, and has 

 proved to be the hardiest of the true cypresses. It succeeds much the best in 

 warm maritime localities, but even in inland places like Kew it is over 40 ft. 

 high. When young it is more tender, and at this state is so distinct in general 

 appearance as to show no apparent relationship to the adult type. The leaves 

 are in. long, awl-shaped, with sharp, outwardly spreading points ; the shoots 

 much longer and more attenuated, the leaves well apart. As the plants 

 increase in age, they gradually assume the adult state described above ; but 

 when, as they sometimes are in mild counties, used for hedges and clipped 

 back annually, the young growths retain this juvenile type of foliage and 

 branchlet. The young growths are sometimes distinctly lemon-scented. 



Var. FASTIGIATA, Masters. Branches permanently erect-growing, giving 

 the tree a columnar or fastigiate form. 



Var. LUTEA, Dickson. Of similar habit to fastigiata, but with the young 

 shoots and leaves of a beautiful yellow. Raised by Dicksons of Chester, 

 in 1889. 



The form known as CRIPPSII is a juvenile state with stiff branches. Raised 

 at Tunbridge Wells. 



