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Araucaria imbricata, Pav. 
Chili and Patagonia. The male tree attains only a height of 60 feet, 
but the female reaches 160 feet. It furnishes a hard and durable 
timber, as well as an abundance of edible seeds, which constitute a 
main article of food of the natives. Eighteen good trees will yield 
enough for a man’s sustenance all tho y> ar round. In our lowlands 
of comparative slow growth, but likely of far more rapid development, 
if planted in our ranges. 
Callitris quadrivalvis, Vent. 
North Africa. A middling-sized tree, yielding the true Sandarac 
resin. 
Cephalotaxus Fortunei, Hook. 
China and Japan. This splendid yew attains a height of 60 feet, and 
is very hardy. 
Cryptomeria Japonica, Don. 
Japan and Northern China. A slender evergreen tree, 100 feet high. 
It requires forest valleys for successful growth. The wood is compact, 
very white, soft and easy to work. 
Cupressus Bcntliami, Endl. 
Mexico, at 6 to 7,000'. A beautiful tree, 60 feet high. The wood is 
fine grained and exceedingly durable. 
Cupressus Lawsoniana,* Murr. (Chamcccyparis Lawsoniana, Pari.) 
Northern California. This is a splendid red-flowered cypress, growing 
100 fo t high, with a stem of 2 feet in diameter, and furnishes a 
valuable timber f >r 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 macrocarpa, Hartw*. (C. Lambertiana, Gord.) 
Upper California. This beautiful and shady tree attains the height of 
160 feet, with a stem of 9 feet in circumference, and is one ot the 
quickest growing of all conifers, even in poor dry soil. 
Cupressus Nutkaensis, Lamb. (Chamcccyparis Nutkaensis, Spach.) 
North-West America. Height of tree 100 feet. Wood used for boat¬ 
building and other purposes ; tho bast for mats and ropes. 
Cupressus obtusa, F. von Muell. (Uetinospora oblusa, S. A Z.) 
Japan. Attains a height of 80 feet; stem 5 feet in circumference. It 
forms a great part of the forests at Nipon. The wood is wldte-veined 
and compact, assuming, when planed, a silky lustre. It is used in 
Japan for temples. There are varieties of this species with foliage of 
a golden and of a silvery-white hue. 
Two other Japanese cypresses deserve introduction, namoly: Cupr. 
breviramcn. (Chamwcyparis breviramea, Maxim.), and Cupr. pendens, 
(Chamwcyparis pcndula ,- Maxim.) 
Cupressus pisifera, F. von Muell. (Chamacyparis pisifera, 8. & Z.) 
Japan. It attains a height of 30 feet, producing also a variety with 
golden foliage. 
Cupressus semporvirens, L. 
Common Cypress of South Europe. Height of tree up to 80 feet. It 
is famous for the great ago it reaches, and for tho durability of its 
timber, which is next to imperishable. At present it is much sought 
for the manufacture of musical instruments. 
