PINACE.E 



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Fig. 76 





nearly \' in diameter, dark red-brown, with usually 4 or 6 scales tipped with prominent 

 erect pointed bosses and frequently covered with conspicuous resin-glands; seeds 2-4 

 under each scale, ovoid, 

 acute, slightly flattened, 

 about \' long, dark red- 

 brown, with thin light red- 

 brown wings often nearly 

 twice as wide as the body 

 of the seed. 



A tree, frequently 120 

 high, with a tall trunk 

 5-6 in diameter, hori- 

 zontal branches forming a 

 narrow pyramidal head, 

 stout distichous somewhat 

 flattened or terete light 

 yellow branchlets often 

 tinged with red at first, 

 dark or often bright red- 

 brown during their third 

 season, ultimately paler and covered with close thin smooth bark. Bark \'-\' thick, 

 light gray tinged with brown, irregularly fissured, and separated on the surface into large 

 thin loose scales. Wood hard, rather brittle, very close-grained, exceedingly durable, 

 bright clear yellow, with very thin nearly white sapwood; fragrant with an agreeable 

 resinous odor; used in boat and shipbuilding, the interior finish of houses, and the manu- 

 facture of furniture. 



Distribution. Islands of Prince William Sound, Alaska, and southward over the coast 

 mountains of Alaska and British Columbia, and along the Cascade Mountains of Wash- 

 ington and Oregon to the northeastern slopes of Mt. Jefferson, extending eastward to 

 the headwaters of the Yakima River on the eastern slope of the range; on Whiskey 

 Peak of the Siskiyou Mountains in the southeastern corner of Josephine County, Ore- 

 gon and about two miles from the California line; most abundant and of its largest size 

 near the coast of Alaska and northern British Columbia, ranging from the sea-level up 

 to altitudes of 3000; at high elevations on the Cascade Mountains sometimes a low 

 shrub. 



Occasionally cultivated, with its several abnormal forms, as an ornamental tree in the 

 middle Atlantic states and in California, and commonly in the countries of western and 

 central Europe. 



3. Chamaecyparis Lawsoniana Parl. Port Orford Cedar. Lawson Cypress. 

 Cupressus Lawsoniana A. Murr. 



Leaves bright green or pale below, conspicuously glandular on the back, usually not more 

 than iV long on lateral branchlets, on leading shoots often spreading at the apex, f to 

 nearly ' long, usually dying, turning bright red-brown and falling during their third year. 

 Flowers: male with bright red connectives bearing usually 2 pollen-sacs: female with dark 

 ovate acute spreading scales, each bearing 2-4 ovules. Fruit clustered on the upper 

 lateral branchlets and produced in great profusion, ripening in September and October, 

 about ' in diameter, green and glaucous when full grown, red-brown and often covered 

 with a bloom at maturity, its scales with thin broadly ovate acute reflexed bosses; seeds 

 2-4 under each fertile scale, ovoid, acute, slightly compressed, j' long, light chestnut-brown, 

 with broad thin wings. 



A tree, often 200 high, with a tall trunk frequently 12 in diameter above its abruptly 

 enlarged base, a spire-like head of small horizontal or pendulous branches clothed with 



