76 WEST-AMERICAN 



off, leaving a dark red surface. Branchlets erect, 

 short, stout, and distinctly quadrangular, caused by 

 the closely-appressed leaves in four ranks; cones 

 about f inch in diameter. 



BEAUTIFUL CYPRESS. Var. bonita. \\. var. * 

 Beautiful trees of much lower stations, being found 



on moist lands along the mouths of mountain streams; 



the trunk and limbs not the least decorticated. 



Abundant and of large size in Bonita Canyon, 



Chirricahua Mountains, Southeast Arizona. 



Croup 2. Californian Cypresses 



No. 3 Monterey Cypress 



C. macrocarpa, Hartweg. 



Familiar hedge-making trees, indigenous upon 

 Point Pinos, near Monterey, where the cutting winds 

 from the ocean have fashioned the old slow-growing 

 trees into fantastic shapes. Cones the largest of the 

 genus, about an inch thick. Seeds black. 



No. 4 North-Coast Cypress 



C. Qoveniana, Gordon. 



Rare, shrubby trees from Monterey Bay northward 

 to Mendocino. Foliage pea green; cones small, of 

 scales; seeds dark. Abundant on Mt. Tamalpias 

 near San Francisco. 



*New variety, not before published. 



