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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



6s 



in diameter, slender erect branches forming a narrow or broad bushy pyramidal 

 head, becoming stout and spreading in old age into a broad flat-topped crown, stout 



branchlets covered when 

 the leaves fall at the end 

 of three or four years 

 with thin light or dark 

 reddish brown bark sep- 

 arating into small pa- 

 pery scales. Bark |'-1' 

 thick and irregularly di- 

 vided into broad flat con- 

 nected* ridges separating 

 freely into narrow elon- 

 gated thick persistent 

 scales, dark red-brown 

 on young stems and up- 

 per 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 Cali- 

 fornia, 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 Arizonica, Greene. Cypress. 



Leaves thick, keeled, usually without glands, pale glaucous green, about \' long, 

 dying and becoming light red-brown and glaucous in their second season, and 

 remaining on the 

 branches for two or 

 three years longer. 

 Flowers : stami- 

 nate oblong, obtuse, 

 their 6 or 8 stamens 

 with broadly ovate 

 acute yellow connec- 

 tives slightly erose 

 on the margins; pis- 

 tillate not seen. 

 Fruit on stout pe- 

 duncles, \'\' long, 

 subglobose, slightly 



puberulous, about 1' I I Q 



in diameter, dark 



red-brown, covered with a thick glaucous bloom, their 6 or occasionally 8 scales with 

 stout cylindrical pointed or incurved prominent bosses; seeds oblong to nearly tri- 

 angular, ^g'-|' long, dark red-brown, with thin narrow wings. 



