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FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 



scale. Wood, coarse-grained; faint reddish brown (that of Gowen cypress is 

 pale yellowish-brown). Nothing is known now of its other characteristics; 

 but good-sized sticks are so rare that it is not likely to be used except for local 

 domestic purposes. The tree deserves the forester's attention, however, par- 



Fig. 63. — Cuprcssus ptigmaea: a, seed. 



ticularly on account of its remarkable ability to thrive in much-exposed coastal 

 situations and in dry, poor soils. 



Longevity. — Very little is known of its age. Most of the largest trees now 

 known in the greatly confined range are probably not over 60 years old ; recur- 





