C U P R E S S U S
>N.—CUPRESSUS NUTKÄENS1S, Lambert, Genus Pinns, ed. i, ii. p. iS (1824) ; ed. 2. ii. p. 60 (1S2S) ; Loudon, Arboretum.
iv. p. 2480 (1838) ; Hooker, Flor. Bor. Amer., ii. p. 165 (1840) ; Gordon, Pinelum, p. 66 (1858) -, Newberry, in U. S. Panf
Rail. Rep., vi. p. 62 (1857); Hoopes, Book of Evergreens, p. 345 (1868).
THUJA EXCELSA, liongard, Vfg. Sitch., in Mem. Acad. St Pelersb., vi„ ser. ii. p. 164 (1833).
CUPRESSUS AMERICANA, Trautvetter, Plant. Imagines, Flor. Russ., illustr. 12 (1844).
CHAM/ECYPARIS NUTKÄENSIS, Spach, Hist. Nat. Vtg. Phaner., xi. p. 333 (1842); Endlicher. Syn. Conif, p. 62
(1847); Lindley and Gordon, in Journ. Hort. Soc., v. p. 207 (1850); Carrière, Traité Gen. des Conif, p. 134 (1855) ;
Henkel and Hochstetten Synop. d. Nadc/holzcr, p. 250(1865); Pariatore, in De Candollis Prodromus. xvi. p. 465 (1868).
THUJOPSIS BOREALIS (Fischeret Hort).
—Foliage and Cones.—Trautvetter (op. cit.), t. 7 ; Newberry (op. cit.), vi., p. 63.
Specific Charatter.—C. ramis subere&is compressis, foliis acuminatis dorso carinatis baud glandulis
instructs. Habitat in America boreali-occidentali montibus Cascade et Insula Vancouver et Sitka.
A tree of " moderate s " with sub-erect branches, which, when the leaves have fallen, are slender,
brown, and smooth. Branchlets
distichous tetragonal, densely
clothed with leaves, imbricated isM// ;
in four rows [fig. 1]. The ( f W * I
( f l iV I f l leaves are adpressed (or. on ^
KAWl AWJl tHIKl' the older twigs, with apex free), \ ,
broadly ovate, acuminate, coriaceous,
shining, without a gland i s ^ jpfifMsr /'
on the back, the younger leaves lir^ " k.
acutely keeled on the back [fig.
v 2], the older ones with a longi- ^ « i p & j i j ® / , .•\tfi""
tudinal channel [fig. 3J. Male , •• • . ''
flowers of a sulphury yellow colour and growing at the ends of short IS y'jMp^ '
branchlets; about two lines in length ^ff'fi
[figs. 4 and 5], the scales or crests of the
flower round on the sides, peaked at the |.-,s.,
apex, and each bearing two or three large
globose anthers at their base [figs. 6 and 7 J. C01
the same cone magnified] globose,
as large as peas, growing
solitary on lateral branchlets,
, and densely clothed with ^«r
imbricated leaves, with four Fjir s Fjg ? Fig io Flg M Flg , .
which are shorter than the •
dD to eight, usually six, decussate
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Fig. 13. Fig. 14- Kg. '5- F'g- -- peltate scales [figs. 13 and 14] (not reckoning the two lowest minute ones
inserted in the basal scales), which are umbonate, smooth, or radiately striated, the umbo terminating in a
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