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N00TKA CYPRESS. 
Natural Order, Cupressunle, (Richard.) Linncean Classi- 
fication, Monoecia Monadelphia. 
CUPRESSUS Nutkatensis, ramis suberectis tetragonis , foliis late-avatis 
acuminatis quadrifariam imbricatis dorso carinatis etuberculatis , gal- 
bulis magnitudine pisi majoris globosis ramos breves terminantibus , 
squamis umbonatis levibus . Lambert, Pin. n. 60, Sine ic. Hooker, 
Flor. Bor. Am. vol. 2, p. 165. 
Thuja excelsa. Bongard, Veget. de Sitcha, p. 46. 
This species, which I did not meet with, was collected at 
Nutka on the north-west coast by Menzies, at Observatory 
Inlet by Dr. Scouler, and as far north as Sitcha by Bon- 
gard. The branches are sometimes a little compressed, 
nearly erect and tetragonal. The leaves broad ovate, 
acuminate, imbricated in 4 rows, the back carinated but 
without the glandular tubercle ; the fruit about the size of 
a large pea, terminating short branchlets, and the scales 
are shield-formed and even. It has a near affinity with 
the Common White Cedar, (C. Thyoides ), but that has 
shorter, flatter and more spreading branches, with tubercles 
on the back of the leaves, and smaller fruit. 
