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scales, flat, and ear-shaped, witli a bony shell and membranous 

 wings along each side, frequently much broader than the seeds, 

 and cut more or less sloping at top and bottom. 



A fine tree, growing in favourable situations from two and a 

 half to four feet in diameter, and rising to a height of from SO 

 to 100 feet, with a straight stem, covered with rather a soft, 

 smooth, dark-coloured bark, and well furnished with an ample 

 branching and much-divided head ; timber white and soft, but 

 affording, in considerable quantities, a strong aromatic balsam, 

 somewhat resembling the Canadian balsam in taste and smell. 



It is found along the north-west coast of North America, 

 particularly at Nootka Sound, in Observatory Inlet, and on the 

 Island of Sitcha, and is called "Tchugatskoy " (the Savin, or 

 strong-scented Fir) by the Russian settlers on the Island of 

 Sitcha, and about Nootka Sound, and was first introduced into 

 England in 1851, through the Russian garden at St. Peters- 

 burgh, under the improper name of Thuiopsis Borealis, a name 

 . given to it by the late Dr. Fischer. 



It is quite hardy, and has the following variety : — 



CUPRESSUS NUTKAENSIS VARIEGATA, Hort. 



Syn. Thuiopsis Borealis variegata, Hort. 

 ., Cupressus Nutkaensis argentea, Hort. 



This variety differs in having a considerable number of the 

 ends of the smaller branchlets of a pale yellow, or white colour 

 intermixed with the ordinary green ones. 



No. 14. GuPRESSUS SEMPERViRENS, L., the Upright Cypress. 

 Syn. C. fastigiata, D. C. 

 „ 0. stricta. Miller. 

 „ C. pyramidalis, Tozzett. 

 „ C. Tournefortii, Audibert. 

 „ C. fcemina, Ccesalpin. 

 Leaves imbricated, in four rows, small, deep, shining green, 

 closely pressed to the stem, convex, blunt, or pointed on young 



