THE CYPRESS SUB-FAMILY. 



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entirely destitute of the peculiar glaucous appearance 

 which is the most attractive feature of the species. 



2, L, decurrens, Torrey. Syn. Thuja Craigiana, Jef- 

 frey ; T. gigantea, Gordon T. Lobbii, Hort. Leaves 

 very small, adpressed, awl-shaped or scale-formed, sharply 

 acute, decurrent, not acerose, bright glossv-green color. 



tj > <j 



Branches, spreading, incurved at the extremities, with nu- 

 merous, compressed branchlcts. Cones, ovate-oblong, 

 pendulous (Bigelow) ; scales enlarged below the apex, 

 with recurved, tubercle-like spines, the upper ones much 

 the largest. Seeds, two-winged, unequal iu size. 



Tliis is not a synonym 

 of Thuja gigantea, as 

 Gordon and other Euro- 

 pean authors claim ; but 

 a very distinct tree be- 

 longing to a separate 

 genus. Douglas was 

 greatly in error when he 

 made the assertion that 

 it was found near Nootka 

 Sound. Seeds of Thuja 

 Craigiana, collected by 

 Jeffrey, and grown near 

 Philadelphia, have pro- 

 duced young plants iden- 

 tical with the L. decur- 

 rens. Dr. Torrey, in the 

 Smithsonian Contribu- 

 tions, states that it in- 

 habits the upper waters 

 of the Sacramento, par- 

 ticularly from lat. 38 

 40', to about 41 K lat,, where it was also found 

 (without fruit) by the botanists of the U. S. Exploring 

 Expedition, and by Dr. G. H. Ilulse. A noble tree, some- 



Fiff. 40. LIBOCEDRUS DECURREXS. 



