PINACE^E 



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subglobose \'-\ r in diameter, its scales terminating in small bosses; seeds compressed, 

 black, or dark brown, papillose, about ' long. 



A tree rarely 75 high, with a tall trunk up to 2 10' in diameter, often not more than 25 

 high, more often a shrub with numerous stems 1-15 tall, ascending branches, and compara- 

 tively stout bright reddish brown branchlets, becoming purple and ultimately dark reddish 



Fig. 69 



brown ; often beginning to produce fertile cones when only 1 or 2 tall. Bark bright red- 

 dish brown, about |' thick, and divided by shallow fissures into flat ridges separating on 

 the surface into long thread-like scales. Wood soft?, very coarse-grained, pale reddish brown. 

 Distribution. California: pine barrens on the western slope of Point Pinos Ridge two 

 miles west of Monterey, and on alkaline soil in a narrow belt beginning about three quar- 

 ters of a mile from the shore of Mendocino County and extending inland for three or four 

 miles from Ten Mile Run on the north to the Navarro River on the south; arborescent 

 and also of its smallest size only in this northern station. 



3. Cupressus Sargentii Jeps. Sargent's Cypress. 

 Cupressus Goveniana Engelm. not Gord. (Silva N. Am. x. 107 t. 527) 



Leaves obscurely glandular or without glands, dark green, pungently aromatic, iV~i' 



long, turning bright red- 

 brown in drying and 

 falling at the end of 

 three or four years ; on 

 young plants f'-i' long. 

 Flowers: male with thin 

 slightly erose connec- 

 tives: female of 6 or 8 

 acute slightly spreading 

 scales. Fruit often in 

 crowded clusters, short- 

 stalked, subglobose, \'- 

 V in diameter, reddish 

 brown or purple, lus- 



Fig. 70 trous, puberulous, its 6 



or 8 scales with broadly 



ovoid generally rounded and flattened and rarely short-obconic bosses; seeds brown, 

 lustrous, often glaucous, with an acute margin, \' long, about 20 under each fertile scale. 





