94 CTTPRESSTJS, OR 



No. 13. CuPRESSUS NuTKAENSis, Hoolcer, the Nootka Sound 



Cypre.ss. 



Syn. Cupressus Tchugatskoyas, Hort. 

 Nootkaensis, Lambert. 

 Americana, Trautvetter. 

 „ Thuia excelsa, Bongard. 

 „ Thuiopsis Borealis, Fischer. 



„ Tchugatskoyse, Carrihre. 

 „ Chamsecyparis Nutkaensis, Sfoch. 

 „ excelsa, FiscMr. 



Leaves in four rows, in opposite pairs, broadly ovate at the 

 base, sharp-pointed, and one-eighth of an inch long, very thick, 

 smooth, of a glossy green, sometimes a little glaucous when 

 young, on the upper side, and pale, dull green below, convex 

 on the back, decurrent, and closely adhering at the base ; adult 

 ones much shorter, awl-shaped at the points, keeled on the 

 back, without any gland, but furrowed, and closely imbricated; 

 those on the young plants glaucous, somewhat lanceolate, quite 

 straight, extended at the points, loosely imbricated, and bristle- 

 pointed. Branches round, spreading, or curved uipwards to- 

 wards the ends, but sometimes those near the bottom of the 

 trees are more or less deflected ; scaly from the withered leaves, 

 and of a brownish colour ; lateral ones in two rows, regularly 

 placed alternately on each side, flat and flexible ; branchlets 

 in two rows, four-sided, rather distant, extended, and thickly 

 covered with short, straight, regularly imbricated leaves. Cones 

 solitary, globular, almost sessile, or on the ends of verj' short, 

 scaly branchlets, about the size of a large pea, and covered with 

 a glaucous bloom. Scales small, rough, and from six to eight 

 in. number, embossed, shield-shaped, with four or five angular 

 or orbicular sides, elevated in the centre, in alternate opposite 

 pairs, furnished in the middle with a straight, thick, conical, 

 obtuse point, the lower pair much the thinnest, and very closely 

 inserted at the base. Seeds mostly three under each scale, 

 freely inserted on the interior of the upper surface of the 



