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ter, with five or six pairs of scales, and about twenty seeds to 

 each. A large tree, forty to seventy feet high, with rough 

 bark and widely spreading branches. On granite rocks near the 

 sea, in California, near Monterey, and southward. Hardy in 

 England, and thrives in our Southern States, but tender in the 

 Northern. This species was early introduced into Europe, and 

 from which several varieties have been produced. 



CHAM.^:cYPARis^ Spach. — Cyjjress, 



Trees with the characteristics of the Cupressus, but flattened 

 two ranked branchlets, and the small globose cones maturing 

 the first year. The seeds are also less numerous. In very few 

 botanical works are these trees se]Darated from the Cypress, and 

 the reader can take his choice in the name of the genus, and 

 still have excellent authorities for establishing the correctness 

 of either. 



CliamsecypaTis Lawsoniana, Parlat. — Lawson Cyi)ress. — Leaves 

 small, deep green, with a whitish margin when young, mostly 

 with a gland on the back. Cones small, about a third of an 

 inch in diameter, of eight or ten scales, with the flattened sum- 

 mit terminated by a narrow transverse ridge. Seeds two to 

 four in each scale, and wing-margined. A magnificent and 

 most graceful tree in Northern Cahfornia and Oregon, in the 

 Coast Ranges, growing one hundred to one hundred and fifty 

 feet high. Wood excellent, white, close-grained, compact and 

 fragrant, and is known by the local name of Oregon Cedar, 

 White Cedar, etc. Its success in our Northern Atlantic States 

 has been rather unsatisfactory, for in some soils and situations 

 it thrives and grows rapidly, while in others near by, it fails, 

 burning in summer and killing back in winter. It succeeds 

 best in a rather moist soil, and very poorly in a dry one. 



C. IVntkaensis, Lam. — Nootka-Sound Cypress. — Leaves only 

 one eighth of an inch long, sharp-pointed, over-lapping and 

 appressed, of a very dark, rich green color, very slightly glau- 

 cous, without tubercles. Cones small, globular, solitary, with 

 a fine whitish bloom. Scales four in number, shield-shaped, 

 rough, and terminating in the center with a thick, obtuse, 

 straight point. Seeds about three to each scale. Branches 

 spreading or incurved at the ends. A tree sometimes a hun- 

 dred feet high in Sitka, and southward to the Cascade Moun- 

 tains on our northwest coast. Hardy in our Northern States, 

 but aj)pears to suffer more from heat and drouths in summer 

 than cold in winter. 

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