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the species, being only i inch in diameter, and almost circu- 

 lar, each scale being provided with a projecting umbo. It 

 occurs in Guadeloupe Island, off the coast of Lower California. 



C. macrocarpa lutea, raised by Messrs. Dickson 

 at their Chester nursery, is an undoubted acquisition, and 

 should it, when advanced in growth, retain the beautiful and 

 distinct golden tint for which young specimens are justly 

 remarkable, its use in ornamental planting will be hard to 

 estimate. It is of compact and neat growth, but by no 

 means formal, with a plentiful supply of finely divided and 

 neatly arranged branches and branchlets ; and this, with its 

 warm golden tint of foliage, claims for it a foremost place in 

 our list of variegated conifers. This variety has been 

 awarded a first-class certificate by the Royal Horticultural 

 Society. 



C- nootkatensiS, Lambert. Alaska Cypress. {Syno- 

 nyms : C, nutkaensis, Hooker ; Chamcecyparis nutkaenszs, 

 Spach ; T/iuyopsis borealis, Carriere ; T, nidijica, Rovelli.) 

 Vancouver Island, Oregon, British Columbia. 1794. This 

 is a fine, spreading branched tree, with an exterior resem- 

 blance to C. Lawsoniana, but certainly inferior to that species 

 in point of ornamental appearance. It is somewhat stiff and 

 rigid in outline, the main branches having a partially upright 

 tendency, with numerous drooping branchlets, thickly clothed 

 with small, closely-imbricated, sharp-pointed leaves, of a rich 

 dark green above, slightly glaucous beneath, and emitting a 

 pungent odour when crushed. The cones are nearly spherical 

 in shape, each \ an inch in. diameter, composed of four scales, 

 with, on an average, eleven seeds. The male catkins are 

 sulphur yellow. 



For economic planting, this cypress is well worthy of atten- 

 tion, it being of undoubted hardihood, and producing valuable 

 timber, which is of a pale yellow colour, light in proportion to 

 the bulk, and very durable. Trees of twenty years growth 

 are, from a great number of measurements I have taken, 

 usually about 19 feet high, rarely more, while the taper in the 

 trunk is greater than in any other of the species. 



