72 TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



A tree, shrub, or small bushy tree rarely more than 15 or 16 high, with a short trunk 

 2 in diameter, slender erect or spreading branches forming a handsome open head, and 

 thin branchlets covered with close smooth bark, at first orange-colored, becoming bright 

 reddish brown, and ultimately purple or dark brown. Bark ?'-%' thick, dark grayish 

 brown, irregularly divided into narrow ridges covered with thin persistent oblong scales. 

 Wood light, soft, not strong, light brown, with thick nearly white sapwood. 



Distribution. California: dry mountain slopes usually between altitudes of 1300 and 

 2300 in few widely isolated stations, Red Mountain, Mendocino County, to Mt. Tamal- 

 pais, Marin County; Cedar Mountain, Alameda County; Santa Cruz Mountains, Santa 

 Cruz County; Santa Lucia Mountains, Monterey County; often covering great areas on 

 the hills of Marin County with dense thickets only a few feet high. 



Occasionally cultivated as C. Goveniana in western and southern Europe as an orna- 

 mental tree. 



4. Cupressus Macnabiana A. Murr. Cypress. 



Cupressus Bakeri Jeps. 

 Cupressus nevadensis Abrams. 



Leaves acute or rounded at apex, rounded and conspicuously glandular on the back, 

 deep green, often slightly glaucous, usually not more than ^y long. Flowers in March 

 and April, male nearly cylindric, obtuse, with broadly ovate rounded connectives: 

 female subglobose, with broadly ovate scales short-pointed and rounded at apex. 

 Fruit oblong, subsessile or raised on a slender stalk, \'-l' long, dark reddish brown more or 

 less covered with a glaucous bloom, slightly puberulous, especially along the margins of 

 the 6 or rarely 8 scales, their prominent bosses thin and recurved on the lower scales, and 

 much thickened, conical, and more or less incurved on the upper scales; seeds dark chest- 

 nut-brown, usually rather less than ^V long, with narrow wings. 



A tree in Oregon occasionally 80 high with a tall trunk sometimes 31 in diameter, 

 southward rarely more than 30 high, with a short trunk 12'-15' in diameter, slender 

 branches covered with close smooth compact bark, bright purple after the falling of the 

 leaves, soon beooming dark brown; more often a shrub with numerous stems 6-12 tall 

 forming a broad open irregular head. Bark thin, dark reddish brown, broken into brown 



flat ridges, and separating 

 on the surface into elon- 

 gated thin slightly attached 

 long-persistent scales. Wood 

 light, soft, very close- 

 grained. 



Distribution. Rare and 

 local, usually in small groves; 

 dry ridges of Mount Steve 

 and adjacent mountains up 

 to altitudes of 5300, Jo- 

 sephine County, southwest- 

 ern Oregon; California; on 

 lava beds, southeastern Sis- 

 kiyou and southwestern Mo- 

 Fig. 7 1 no Counties (C. Bakeri) ; dry 



hills and low slopes, Mt. 



jEtna, in central Napa County; through Lake County to Red Mountain on the east side 

 of Ukiah Valley, Mendocino County; in Trinity County between Shasta and Whiskey- 

 town; and on the Sierra Nevada (Red Hill, Piute Mountains near Bodfish) Kern County, 

 at an altitude of 5000 (C. nevadensis). 



Occasionally cultivated in western and southern Europe as an ornamental tree. 



