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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



Fruit usually sessile, short-oblong, \'-% long, its scales terminating in small bosses; 

 seeds compressed, black, about \' long. 



A tree, sometimes 30 high, often beginning to bear cones when only 1 or 2 tall, 

 with a trunk rarely more than 1 in diameter, ascending branches, and comparatively 



7' 



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

 brown. Bark bright reddish 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. Sandy barrens of Mendocino County, California, in a narrow belt, 

 beginning about three quarters of a mile from the ocean, and extending inland for 

 three or four miles from Ten-Mile Run on the north to the Navarro on the south. 



5. Cupressus Macnabiana, A. Murr. Cypress. 



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

 back, deep green, often slightly glaucous, usually not more than T y long. Flowers 



in March and April, the 

 staminate nearly cylindri- 

 cal, obtuse, with broadly 

 ovate rounded connectives; 

 pistillate subglobose, with 

 broadly ovate scales short- 

 pointed and rounded at the 

 apex. Fruit oblong, sub- 

 sessile or raised on a slen- 

 der stalk, f'-l' long, dark 

 reddish brown more or 

 less covered with a glau- 

 cous bloom, slightly puber- 

 ulous, especially along the 

 margins of the 6 or rarely 

 8 scales, their prominent bosses thin and recurved on the lower scales, and much 



