92 CUPRESSUS, OR 



dark brown, and more or less angular. Seed-leaves ' in fours, 

 but sometimes only in threes. Seeds angular. 



In the year 1838 the late Mr. Lambert distributed among his 

 friends a few seeds of this Cypress, without any name or indi- 

 cation from whence he had obtained the seeds, and from these 

 seeds plants were raised, which, when large enough, were at 

 once seen to be very distinct from any previously known ; and 

 I gave to it the name of C Lambertiana, in compliment to the 

 late Mr. A. Lambert, and to mark from whence they were first 

 obtained. Nothing, however, was ascertained further concern- 

 ing the country from whence it came until some two years 

 afterwards, when I observed at Mr. Low's nursery, at Clapton, 

 a plant of the same kind, which had been received from Dr. 

 Fischer, of St. Petersburg, as a new species from California. 

 At a later period Mr. Hartweg, when in Upper California^ dis- 

 covered it, and finding it had very large fruit, gave it the name 

 of Cupressus macrocarpa, and which, having been published in 

 his Journal^ takes precedence of my unpublished though gene- 

 ral known name of C. Lambertiana. It is identically the same 

 plant, although some persons endeavour to make them distinct 

 varieties ; that there is some difference in the shape of the 

 plants may be, but then that arises from aU those plants known 

 under the name of C. Lambertiana being raised from cuttings, 

 while aU those called C. macrocai'pa are seedlings, and have a 

 more pyramidal-shaped head, while the cutting plants (C. 

 Lambertiana*) have a horizontal and rather flat-headed appear- 

 ance. 



It is one of the finest Cypresses yet introduced, on account 

 of its beautiful bright green aspect, its great size and hardi- 

 ness. Mr. Hartweg found it forming a tree 60 feet high, with 

 a stem nine feet in circumference, on the wooded heights near 



* The original seedHng plants of what is called Cupressus Lamber- 

 tiana, had the same erect habit as those of Cupressus macrocarpa ; and 

 if the pomts of the leading shoots are taken off young seedling plants 

 of Cupressus macrocarpa, the plants wiU aftenvards assume the same 

 spreadmg habit as those known as Cupressus Lambertiana. 



