CUPRESSUS LAWSONIANA. 
Identification.— CUPRESSUS LAWSONIANA, Murray, in Edin. New Phil. Jour. (New Series), vol. i. p. 292 (April 1855); Gordon, 
Pmetum , p. 62 (1858); and Supplement , p. 24 (1862). 
PORT ORFORD CEDAR of the Californian Settlers. 
Engravings.— Cones and Leaves. —Murray, in Edin. New Phil. Jour. (loc. cit.) 
specific Character. —C. ramulis quadrangulis mediocriter compreffis flexuofis, foliis decuffatis quad- 
riferiatis adpreffis, ftrobilis polygonis pedunculatis, fquamis numero fex fere planis mucronatis, fem- 
inibus compreffis auriculatis. 
Habitat in California boreali circa lat. 40° to 42°. 
Branchlets quadrangular, compreffed; branches flexuofe, crowded, afcending; leaves decuffate, ovate, 
glaucous, adpreffed in four imbricated rows, each, as in the reft of the genus, with a longitudinal gland 
in the middle of the back; the form of the leaves and pofttion of the glands are fhewn in the woodcut 
[fig. 1]. Small ftomata are difperfed on each fide of the leaf. In fome of the young plants of this 
fpecies, a certain amount of variation may be feen in the leaves. Fig. 2 reprefents the ordinary form, 
fig. 3 the lefs common afpect, of the natural fize. Fig. i reprefents the former and fig. 4 the latter, both 
magnified. Fig. 5 reprefents the more elongate and younger leaves ftill more highly magnified, and 
fhews the difpofition of the ftomata along each fide of the leaf; and figs. 6 and 7 the relative 
form of the infertion [a a) of the leaf. It does not appear to be a younger or older form, for 
it is feen in fome and not in other plants. Male flowers of a beautiful red colour, forming a 
charming objed early in fpring [fig. 8, of the natural fize]. Cones [fig. 9, magnified] folitary, 
terminal, polygonal, of a light brown colour, fomewhat foft in texture, about the fize of a large 
pea, pedunculated; fcales, ufually fix in number, flat, rough, light brown, corticaceous, irregularly four 
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