Cupressus 1171 



which Mr. A. C. Forbes found in 1908 to be 85 ft. in height and 14 ft. 3 in. in girth. 

 At Hamwood, Co. Meath, there is also a splendid specimen, with a tall upright clean 

 stem, which was planted in 1844, and measured in 1903 85 ft. by loj ft. There are 

 fine specimens at Castlewellan,^ Powerscourt, and Fota. 



At Tykillen, Co. Wexford, the seat of Captain J. Walker, there is a large 

 spreading tree (Plate 297) about 60 ft. by 11 ft., the branches covering an area 

 74 paces round ; and at Adare, Co. Limerick, the seat of the Earl of Dunraven, 

 there is another very densely branched and spreading tree of about the same 

 dimensions. Mr. Bowles, the gardener here, told me that its seedlings did not 

 preserve the habit of the parent tree, a circumstance which had been previously 

 referred to in Pinetum Britannicum, ii. 196. (H. J. E.) 



CUPRESSUS GOVENIANA, Gowen's Cypress 



Cupressus Goveniana^ Gordon, m Journ. Hort. Soc. iv. 295, cum fig. (1849); Engelmann, in Brewer 

 and Watson, Bot. Calif or. ii. 114 (1880); Masters, in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xxxi. 346 

 (1896); Sargent, Silva N. Amer. x. 107, t. 527 (1896), and Trees JV. Anier. 79 (1905); 

 Kent, Veitch's Man. Conif. 204 (1900). 



Cupressus californica, Carrifere, Conif. 127 (1855). 



Cupressus attenuata, Gordon, Pinetum, 57 (1858). 



Cupressus Sargentii, Jepson, Flora Calif. 61 (1909). 



A tree attaining in California a maximum of 50 ft. in height and 2 ft. in diameter, 

 usually considerably smaller, and often a small shrub. Bark about an inch thick, dark 

 reddish brown, irregularly divided into narrow ridges, covered with thin persistent 

 oblong scales. Small branches reddish brown, terete, and giving off alternate 

 branchlet systems, which are tri-pinnate, short, with the pinnae at varying angles 

 and not in one plane ; ultimate branchlets tetragonal, equal-sided, -^-^ in. in diameter. 

 Leaves in four equal ranks, ^ to ^ in. long, ovate, appressed, acute and often 

 mucronate at the apex, convex on the back, which is occasionally marked with a 

 longitudinal depression. 



Staminate flowers, ^ in. long, yellow. Cones ripening in the second season, and 

 persistent for several years, on long stout stalks, globose, |^ to f in. in diameter, dark 

 purplish brown, shining ; scales usually eight, occasionally six or ten, smooth, pro- 

 jecting and not depressed in the centre, which bears a prominent triangular, mucronate 

 or rounded process. Seeds, ten to twelve on each scale, variable in size and colour, 

 either {a) large, J to ^ in., brown, shining, marked with resin-vesicles on both sides, 

 and with very narrow wings ; or {b) small, 1^ to |- in., blackish. 



Both in wild and cultivated specimens two forms of this species are readily 

 distinguished : {a) the typical form described above, characterised by coarse 



' Figured in Mora and Sylva, ii. 215 (1904), and in Earl Annesley, Beautiful Trees, 42 (1903). 



2 Cupressus cornuta, Carriire, in Rev. Hort. 1866, p. 250, fig. 32, with very irregular fruit, the upper scales of which 

 bear long thick conical processes, described from a plant cultivated in the garden of M. Denis at Hyeres, was considered by 

 Carri^re, Conif. 171 (1867), to be an abnormal variety of C. goveniana. We have not seen this plant. 



