of California, as well as in South America, Europe and Australia. 

 In New Zealand it is successfully used in the reclamation of 

 dunes. 



[/ C. GOVENiANA GoRD, likewise a maritime species, is a shrub 

 found in disconnected groups from Monterey to Fort Bragg, 

 c. SARGENTii Jepson has a wider and more inland distribution, 

 from southern Mendocino County to Tecate mountain on the 

 boundary between San Diego County and Lower California, but 

 it occurs only in groups of limited extent in a few isolated 

 localities. 



There have also been found fossil remains of a cypress such 

 as these in Pleistocene deposits in two localities where none now 

 grow ; some cones at San Francisco, and a trunk in the Brea 

 deposits near Los Angeles. Considering the present distribution 

 of these cypresses, and their slight specific differentiation, it is 

 not unreasonable to trace their genetic affinities to a Pleistocene 

 forest, which may have stretched far along the coast, of which 

 the present representatives are but the scanty relics. 



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