CUPRESSUS MACROCARPA
IDENTIFICATION.—CUPRESSUS MACROCARPA, Hartweg in Journ. Hort. Soc., it., p. 187 (1847); Gordon in Journ. Hort. Soc., iv., p. 296
(1849), Pinetum, p. 65 (1858) i Pariatore in D. C. Prod., xvi., sect, post., p. 473 (1868); Karl Koch, Dendrologie, ii., p. 14S
(1873) ; Engelmann, inS. Watson, Botany of California, ii., p. 114 (1880); Veitch, Manual of the Coniferai, p. 234 (1881).
CUPRESSUS LAMBERTIANA of Gardens and of Carrière, Traité Gén. des Conif, p. 124 (1855).
CUPRESSUS HARTWEGII, Carrière, Traité Gén. des Conif., ed. 2, p. 168 (1867); C. Reinwardtii, Hort, fide Parialore.
ENGRAVINGS.—Cones and Leaves.—Hartiveg and Gordon, fourn. Hort. Soc., iv., p. 297 (1849).
Specific Character.—" Monoica, arbor coma pyramidata effusa, cortice fusco-rufescente; ramis patentibus
subhorizontalibus [vel adscendentibusj 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, senescendo
marcescentibus, ramulorum secundariorum squamiformibus, quadrifariam arete imbricatis ovatorhombeis
obtusis adpressis supra concaviusculis, dorso convexo subcarinatis et glandula ovali notatis, marginibus
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 solitarns, in ramulo
strobilo ipso breviore erectis globosis (20-28 mill. long, et fere lat.) castaneo-fuscis; squamis 8-12 insequalibus
subpeltatis, sub-orbicularibus irregulariter angulatis dorso convexis vel concaviusculis apice bracteas
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 erase. 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