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scurely pitted on the back, often with a longitudenal furrow on each side: 

 scales of very young cones with conspicuous foliaceous tips; mature cones 

 clustered on short, stout peduncles, oblong-ovate (1-1% i long by 9 li 

 broad), of 5 or usually 6 pairs of scales, with a broad thickish or on the 

 uppermost a subconical boss: sds num (about 20 to each scale), mostly 2% 

 li long. 



Synonyms: C. Lambertiana Gordon, Carr, Conif 124. C. Hartwegii 

 Carr, Conif ed 2, 168. 



C. Gnadalupensis Sereno Watson, Am acpr 14:300 (1879); Bot Cal 2:114. 



Orcutt, Am pi 1:189 D. 



A widely spreading tree, 40 ft hi, 2-5 ft in diam, with bark flaking off 

 in thin plates and leaving a smooth claret-red surface: branches drooping, 

 branchlets very slender: foliage glaucous-green; glands obscure: cones glo- 

 bose and strongly bossed, an i or more in diam, of 6-8 very thick scales: 

 sds large, 3 li long or more. A prized ornamental tree, called the Blue 

 Cypress, first found by Dr. Edward Palmer on Guadalupe Island, and later 

 by Dr. Parry and the writer on the mainland of Baja California, and in 

 canyons near San Diego. 

 LIBOCEDRUS Endl, Syn Conif 42 (1847). 



California white cedar: stam fls with 12 or more fil-scales; cones not 

 reflexed, of 4 or 6 erect subverticillate and somewhat valvate thick-coriac- 

 eous scales, the lower pair smaller and sterile, the 3d pair when present 

 also sterile and connate; sds very unequally winged; otherwise as Thuya. 

 Only 4 known species, 2 South American, 1 in New Zealand. 

 L. decurrens Torrey, PI Frem 7 t 3. 



Heyderia decurreus Koch, Dendrol 2:177. 



Thuya Craigiana Balf, Oreg Exped 2, t. 



A tree conical in shape, with loose fibrous bark and very light and soft, 

 light-colored wood, durable in water or under cover. It grows 100-150 ft 

 hi or more, and 4-7 ft in diam, and occurs in the Coast ranges from Oregon 

 to San Diego, and in the Sierra Nevada to an alt of 8,500 ft. 



CHARLES RUSSELL ORCUTT. 



[For explanation of abbreviations used, see American Plants,volume 1.3 



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SOME NATIVE FLOWERING SHRUBS. 



It is proposed to describe from time to time the native trees and flow- 

 ers of San Diego county, some of them being far better known in European 

 gardens than in the gardens of San Diego city. 

 FREMONTIA Torrey, Smithson Contr 6:5t2 (1854). 



Shrub with hard wood and dark colored bark: Ivs tawny-canescent or 

 ferruginous beneath: bractlets 3, sometimes 5, minute, caducous: sep 

 roundish, rotately spreading in anthesis, nectariferous-pitted at base: sta 

 reg; HI adnate to cx at base, monadelphous to or above the middle; anth 

 elongated-oblong, emarginate at both ends, adnate to an inconspicuous con- 

 nective: cap ovoid, firm-coriaceous: sds smooth. Named in honor of Gen- 

 eral John C. Fremont, its famous discoverer. 



F. Oalifornica Torrey, Smithson Contr. 6:6 (1854). Brewer and Waston, 

 Bot Cal 1:88. Hooker f, Bot Mag t 5591. 



California slippery-elm: Mountain Leatherwood: loosely branching 

 and bush-like, 6-10 ft hi or becoming a small tree 20 ft hi; branches tough 

 and flexible, with many short leaf- and fi-bearing branchlets or spurs; lvs g 

 above, covered beneath with a dense gray or whitish felt, *4-l i long, or 

 on sterile shoots somewhat larger; petioles short; cx flannel-like, 1^-2 i 

 broad, persistent, the sep commonly mucronate; cap ovate, covered with a 

 dense brown felt and with short bristly hairs, % -1 % i long, persistent. 



