114 CONIFERiE. Cupressus. 



obscurely pitteil on tlio back, often witli a longitudinal furrow on eacli sido : scales 

 of very young cones witli conspicuous foliaccoiis tips j mature cones clu'stered on 

 short stout peduncles, oMoiig-ovatc (1 to U inches long by *J lines broad), of f) or 

 usually G pairs of scales, with a broad thickissh or on the u})perniost a suhconical 

 boss : seeds numerous (about 20 to each scale), mostly 2i lines long. — Journ. Ilort. 

 Soc. ii. 187; Gordon, sime, iv. 200, with lig. ; 'I'orr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 211 ; Parla- 

 tore, DC. Prodr. xvi"''. 473. C. Lambert iana, Gord. ; Carr. Conif. 124. C. Ilart- 

 ivey'd, Carr. Conif. 2 ed. 1G8. 



On granite rocks near tlie sea, from Point Pinos near Montcrej' southward 4 or 5 miles to Pesca- 

 deio Hanch. The trees at this the only certain locality very much resemble tlie Cedar of Lebanon 

 in liabit, with dense I'ar-spieading bianciies. The larj,'est measurement recorded (by Piof. W. JI. 

 lirewer) is a circuml'crence of 183 I'eet at a height of 5 or 6 I'eet from the ground. It was early 

 introduced into Kngland and is there fre(jucnt in cultivation under vaiious forms and names. 



2. C. Goveniana, Gurdon. A shrub or small bushy tree, G to 10 feet high or 

 more ; branches spreading and somewhat pendulous ; branchlets rather more slender 

 than in the last, ami tlie leaves slightly smaller, thick and mostly without lateral 

 depressions, the dorsal gland often wanting or very obscure : mature cones smaller, 

 globose (8 to 10 lines in diameter), of G or 8 scales: seeds mostly 1^ to 2 lines 

 long. — Journ. llort. Soc. iv. 296, with fig. ; Torr. Bot. ^lex. Bound. 211 ; Parlat. 

 1. c. 472. 



In the Coast Ranges from about Monterey to Sonoma County. In Marin County it is said to 

 sometimes attain a height of 40 or .00 fiet (it. It. Vaacij). A doubtful I'orm is reiiortcd from 

 Cedar ^Mountain, Alameda County {lh\ Kdloiyj), described as a handsome tree 30 or 40 feet high, 

 of dense symmetrical growtli ; the globose cones have (i very thick .scales with stout prominent 

 bosses.- To this s])ecies also jirobably belongs the cypress of the mountains of San Diego County, 

 which is a low antl slender true, 15 or 20 feet high, with nearly smooth reddish bark, and slender 

 branchlets : leaves with usually a conspicuous gland ; cones rather large (9 to 12 lines in diame- 

 ter), globose, with G very thick scales ; seeds very numerous, 2 lines long. 



C. OuADALi'i'ENSls, AVatson, is another similar syiecies, of Guadalupe Island (Palmer), a widely 

 spreading tree, 40 feet high or more and 2 to 5 feet in diameter, the bark flaking oif iu thin 

 plates and leaving a smooth daret-red surface : branches drooping and branchlets very slender : 

 foliage glaucous-green ; glands obscure : cones globose and strongly bossed, an inch or more in 

 diameter, of G or S very tliick scales; seeds large, 3 lines long or more. In cultivation about San 

 Francisco, and will )irobably prove a valuable ornamental tree. 



3. C. Macnabiana, i\Iurr. A shrub or small tree (G to 10 feet high or more), 

 Avith numerous short slender branchhits : leaves very small, deep green and somewhat 

 glaucous, conspicuously pitted on the back : mature cones small (G to 8 lines in 

 diameter), subgiobose ; scales G, or rarely 8, with thin prominent bosses, the upper- 

 most usually very prominent and incurved : seeds very numerous, 1 h or mostly 2 

 lines long. — Edinb. New Phil. Journ. i. 203, t. 10; Parlat. 1. c. 473? 



About Clear Lake {Torrcij, liol ancle r); originally reported by JellVey from Slount Shasta at 

 5,000 feet altitude. 



3. CHAMJECYPARIS, Spach. 

 With the characters of Citpressus, but with flattened 2-ranked branchlets and the 

 small globose cones maturing the first year; seeds faw (1 to 4) at the base of each 

 obpyramidal thinner scale, angled or more or less winged ; anther-cells 2 or 3 to 

 each connective-scale. — Retinospora, Sieb. i^' Zucc. 



Represented in the Atlantic States by a single species, and by 4 or 5 species in Japan and 

 Eastern Asia, besides the following of the Paciiic Coast. 



1. C. La-WSOniana, Parlat. A tree, often tall (sometimes 100 to 150 feet high by 

 2 to G feet in diameter), with slender spreading or pendulous branches : leaves small, 

 deep green, with a glaucous margin when young, acute or acutish, more or less glandu- 

 lar-pitted : cones 4 lines in diameter, glaucous when young, of 8 or 10 scales with 

 the flattened summit crossed by a narrow transverse ridge acute in the middle : seeds 



