. Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc . l Masters in tlif .roiiriial of theRoyal Hortiiultural Society, Vol. XVII. t Tlie liiiest sjn-cimeiis of /usitintica are still to he seen at Iusaeo w licrr thircarc upwards of 5,700 trees, amoii^ whicli more than fiOO range from 50 to 250 years old,including one of growth wliieh is nearly 100 feet high, and its trunk has a girth of12 feet at three feet from t
. Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc . l Masters in tlif .roiiriial of theRoyal Hortiiultural Society, Vol. XVII. t Tlie liiiest sjn-cimeiis of /usitintica are still to he seen at Iusaeo w licrr thircarc upwards of 5,700 trees, amoii^ whicli more than fiOO range from 50 to 250 years old,including one of growth wliieh is nearly 100 feet high, and its trunk has a girth of12 feet at three feet from the ground. CITPHRSSITS MACNAIilANA. 218 Cupressus Macnabiana. A iiicdiuin-sizcMl tive rarely exceeding 30 fert high, with a short truiik12—15 inches in diameter; often a shrul) with nvinierou8 stems 6—12feet high forming a hroad, open, irregular head. Bark cinnamon-brownbroken into broad ridges. l>ranehlets .slender with orange-red barkwhich soon changes to dark brown. Leaves dimorphic; on the axialshoots more or less elongated, eoncrescent but free at the acute tip;on the short lateral growths minute, scale-like, ovate-svibulate, acute,light bluish green. Staminate flowers Avith six—eight very minute. Fig. 01. C((prcssus Macnaliianft.(From tlie hardeners Chronicle.) stamens. Strobiles on short peduncles, sub-globose, 0-75 — 1 inch indiameter, composed of six—eight rugose, pale brown scales mostly ofoblong shape, each Avith a prominent conical umbo and bearing numerousseeds furnished with narrow wings. Cupressus Macuabiana, Murray in Edinb. New Phil. .Jouni. I. 293, t. 11 (1855).Lindley in Gard. Chron. 1855, p. 420. Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. , D. C. Prodr. XVI. 473. Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 90. Brewer andWatson, Bot. Califor. II. 114. Masters in Gard. Chron. IX. ser. 3 (1891), p. tig. (Nabiana) ; Journ. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 206 ; and Journ. Linn. 347, with tig. Beissner, Nadelholzk. 100. Sargent, Silva N. Amer. , t. 528. 214 C
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