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PIGMY CYPRESS. Var. pigma. n. var.* 



Shrubs or small trees, from 4 inches to 10 feet high, 

 but whatever the size, freely-bearing and often retain- 

 ing the cones through many years; cones small, about 

 J inch thick, of few scales and seeds. Sparsely found 

 on the ashen "White Plains" back from the coast, 

 near Mendocino. 



No. 5-California Mountain Cypress - 



C. MacnaUana, Murray. 



Large trees or tall shrubs branching from the 

 ground. Branchlets numerous, slender; foliage dark 

 green; cones very small, little more than J inch in 

 diameter, with prominent bosses or scale vestiges. 

 Seeds light brown. Near Ukiah, and on Red Moun- 

 tain northward to vicinity of Mt. Shasta. 



Another group, Callitrinae, the brittle-stemmed Cy- 

 presses, with five genera, is sparsely represented in culti- 

 vation by several species of Frenela, Actinostrobus, and 

 other curious little trees. 



Tribe Two. JUNIPERINE^. 



THE JUNIPERS. 



This, the last tribe of the cypress-like trees, is pe- 

 culiar in being so compact and uniform a group that, 



* New variety, not before published. 



