CUPRESSUS MACROCARPA 
Identification. —CUPRESSUS MACROCARPA, Hartweg in Journ. Hort. Soc., ii., p. 187 (1847) ; Gordon in Journ. Hort. Soc., iv., p. 296 
(1849), Pinetum, p. 65 (1858) ; Parlatore in D. C. Prod., xvi., sect post., p. 473 (1868) ; Karl Koch, Dendrologie , ii., p. 148 
(1873) ; Engelmann, in S. Watson, Botany of California, ii., p. 114 (1880) ; Veitch, Manual of the Conferee, p. 234 (1881). 
CUPRESSUS LAMBERTIANA of Gardens and of Carriere, TraitC GCn. des Conif, p. 124 (1855). 
CUPRESSUS HARTWEGII, Carriere, TraitC Gdn. des Conif., ed. 2, p. 168 (1867) ; C. Reinwardtii, Hort. fide Parlatore. 
Engravings. — Cones and Leaves. —Hartweg and Gordon, Journ. Hort. Soc., iv., p. 297 (1849). 
Specific Character .—“ Monoica, arbor coma pyramidata effusa, cortice fusco-rufescente ; ramis patentibus 
subhorizontalibus [vel adscendentibus] teretibus ; ramulis patentibus vel subpatulis crassiusculis a foliis omnino 
tectis subquadrangulis ; foliis viridibus oppositis, ramorum et ramulorum primariorum maxima parte adnatis 
apice libero obtusiusculo mucronato-subpungente dorso glandula lineari vel glandulis lateralibus notatis, sene- 
scendo marcescentibus, ramulorum secundariorum squamiformibus, quadrifariam arete imbricatis ovato- 
rhombeis obtusis adpressis supra concaviusculis, dorso convexo subcarinatis et glandula ovali notatis, mar- 
ginibus acutis et scabriusculis; amentis masculis in ramulo longo vel longiusculo erectis (4 mill. long. 3 
mill, lat.), ovato-globosis majusculis paucis ; bracteis suborbicularibus eroso-denticulatis ; amentis femineis 
globosis e bracteis lepidiisque 10-12 decussatim oppositis adnatis compositis, bractearum apice longiusculo 
acutiusculo reflexo ; strobilis paucis ad basin ramulorum primariorum 2 approximatis vel solitariis, in ramulo 
strobilo ipso breviore erectis globosis (20-28 mill. long, et fere lat.) castaneo-fuscis; squamis 8-12 insequa- 
libus subpeltatis, sub-orbicularibus irregulariter angulatis dorso convexis vel concaviusculis apice bracteae 
tantum libero supra medium vel infra apicem mucronatis, mucrone crasso late obtuso subreflexo; nuculis 
parvis numerosis cum ala angusta oblongis fuscis.”— Parlatore , 1 . c. 
Habitat in locis nemorosis graniticis orariis prope Monterey in California, adhuc haud alibi observata. 
A tree from 40 to 70 feet high in its native country, with rough bark, spreading horizontal branches, 
and flattened top, or with ascending branches and a more pyramidal form of head, varying indeed 
greatly in habit, but with the smallest branchlets given off at an acute angle, whatever be that at which 
the larger branches are given off. The largest measurement recorded in the Botany of California is a 
circumference of 18I feet, at a height of 5 or 6 feet from the ground. The bark of the younger branches 
is glabrous, reddish-brown, sometimes dull purplish. The leaves on the more quickly-growing leader 
shoots are remote, adnate at the base/ the free apical portions subulate, deltoid ; those on the more 
slow-going shoots are closely set in four ranks, each bright green, somewhat fleshy, ovate, obtuse, pitted 
on the back. The primordial leaves, which in rare instances persist on some of the branches of the 
adult tree, are adnate, thin, linear-lanceolate, and very acute. The male catkins placed at the ends of 
short branchlets are erect, small, sub-globose, yellowish, the bracts roundish erose. The female catkins 
are globose, consisting of 10-12 bracts or scales arranged like the leaves in decussating pairs, the 
apex of the bract when young is foliaceous and reflexed. The cones, which measure about ii inches 
long by 1 inch broad, are placed on short stout stalks, and are of an oblong obtuse or sub-globose form, 
consisting 
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