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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



Leaves acutely pointed; cones \'-\' in diameter; seeds dark brown or black. 



2. C. Goveniana (G). 

 Leaves glandular-pitted on the back, acute. 



Cones f'-l' in diameter; seeds brown, often glaucous. 3. C. Sargentii (G). 



Cones \'-V in diameter, often covered with a glaucous bloom; seeds dark chestnut- 

 brown. 4. C. Macnabiana (G). 

 Leaves pale bluish green. 



Leaves obtusely pointed, with small gland-pits; bark of the trunk smooth, lustrous, 

 mahogany brown; branches bright red. 5. C. guadaloupensis (G). 



Leaves acute, eglandular or occasionally obscurely glandular (in var. glabra con- 

 spicuously glandular); bark of the trunk dark brown, separating into long 

 narrow persistent fibres; branchlets gray. 6. C. arizonica (H). 



1. Cupressus macrocarpa Gord. Monterey Cypress. 



Leaves dark green, bluntly pointed, eglandular, and j' |' long; deciduous at the end of 

 three or four years. Flowers opening late in February or early in March, yellow. Fruit 



clustered on short stout 

 stems subglobose, slightly 

 puberulous, l'-l|' in diam- 

 eter, composed of 4 or 6 

 pairs of scales, with broadly 

 ovoid thickened or occasion- 

 ally on the upper scales sub- 

 conical bosses, the scales of 

 the upper and lower pairs 

 being smaller than the others 

 and sterile; seeds about 20 

 under each fertile scale, an- 

 gled, light chestnut-brown, 

 about iV long. 



'/ * A tree, often 60-70 high, 



with a short trunk 2-3 or 



Fig. 68 exceptionally 5-6 in diam- 



eter, slender erect brandies 



forming a narrow or broad bushy pyramidal head, becoming stout and spreading in old 

 age into a broad flat-topped crown, and stout branchlets covered when the leaves fall at 

 the end of three or four years with thin light or dark reddish brown bark separating into 

 small papery scales. - Bark f'-l' thick and irregularly divided into broad flat connected 

 ridges separating freely into narrow elongated thick persistent scales, dark red-brown on 

 young stems and upper branches, becoming at last almost white on old and exposed trunks. 

 Wood heavy, hard and strong, very durable, close-grained. 



Distribution. .Coast of California south of the Bay of Monterey, occupying an area 

 about two miles long and two hundred yards wide from Cypress Point to the shores of 

 Carmel Bay, with a small grove on Point Lobos, the southern boundary of the bay. 



Universally cultivated in the Pacific states from Vancouver Island to Lower California, 

 and often used in hedges and for wind-breaks; occasionally planted in the southeastern 

 states; much planted in western and southern Europe, temperate South America, and in 

 Australia and New Zealand. 



2. Cupressus Goveniana Gord. 

 Cupressus pygmcea Sarg. 



Leaves acutely pointed, dark green. Flowers: male obscurely 4-angled, with broadly 

 ovate peltate connectives : female with 6-10 ovate pointed scales. Fruit usually sessile> 



