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Cucurbita Pepo, Linne. 



The Pumpkin and Vegetable Marrow. Countries on the 

 Caspian Sea. Its naturalisation in the desert would be a 

 boon. The seeds on pressure yield a fixed oil; they are also 

 anthelmintic. C. melanosperma, A. Braun, is not edible. 



Cudrania Javensis, Trecul. 



New South Wales and Queensland, South and East Asia to 

 Japan, East Africa. This climbing thorny shrub can be 

 utilised for hedges. Fruit edible, of pleasant taste; the root 

 furnishes a yellow dye. 



Cuminum Cymimum, Linne. 



North Africa. The fruits of this annual herb are known as 

 Cumin and used for certain condiments, as also in medicine. 

 Cuminum Hispanicum, Merat, is similar. Essential oil 

 peculiar. 



Cupressus Benthami, Endlicher. 



Mexico, at 5000 to 7000 feet. A beautiful tree, 60 feet high. 

 The wood is fine-grained and exceedingly durable. 



Cupressus Lawsoniana, Murray.^ (Chamcecyparis Lav> 

 soniana, Pari.) 



Northern California. This is a splendid red-flowered cypress, 

 growing 100 feet high, with a stem of 2 feet in diameter, and 

 furnishes a valuable timber for building purposes, being clear 

 and easily worked. 



Cupressus Lindleyi, Klotzsch. 



On the mountains of Mexico. A stately cypress, up to 120 

 feet high. It supplies an excellent timber. 



Cupressus macro carpa, Hartweg. 



California, from Monterey to Noyo, in the granite as well as 

 sandstone formation, sometimes in Sphagnum-moors. This 

 beautiful and shady tree attains the height of 150 feet, with 

 a stem of 9 feet in circumference, and is one of the quickest- 

 growing of all conifers, even in poor dry soil. One of the 

 best shelter-trees on sea-sands, naturally following the coast- 

 line, never extending many miles from the shores, and occur- 

 ring in localities where the temperature does not rise above 80° 

 E., nor sinks below the freezing-point (Bolander). 



Cupressus Nutksensis, Lamb. {(Jhamcecyparis Nutkcmsis^ 

 Spach.) 



The Yellow Cedar or Cypress of Alaska and the neighbour- 

 ing States. Height of tree, 100 feet. Timber hard, durable, 

 tough and close, also scented, worked with ease, used for 

 boat-building and other purposes, the bast for mats and ropes. 

 Can be trimmed for hedge-growth. 



