. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Gowen Cypress 99 2. GOWEN CYPRESS — Cupressus Goveniana Gordon This handsome tree occurs sparingly in western California from Mendocino county southward to San Diego county, often reaching an altitude of 900 meters in mountain canons. It is very variable, from a vigorous tree 15 meters high, with a trunk diameter of 6 dm., to a small shrub. It is also called Mountain cypress and North coast cypress. The trunk is short and
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Gowen Cypress 99 2. GOWEN CYPRESS — Cupressus Goveniana Gordon This handsome tree occurs sparingly in western California from Mendocino county southward to San Diego county, often reaching an altitude of 900 meters in mountain canons. It is very variable, from a vigorous tree 15 meters high, with a trunk diameter of 6 dm., to a small shrub. It is also called Mountain cypress and North coast cypress. The trunk is short and much branched. The branches are slender, the lower spreading, forming an open head. The bark is 6 to 12 mm. thick, irregularly broken into nearly flat, low ridges, which spUt up into persistent oblong, dark red- dish brown scales; the iimer bark is much hghter in color. The twigs are slender, smooth, orange brown, becoming reddish brown or often purplish, but finally grayish. The leaves are dark green, ovate, to 3 mm. long, sharp or rounded, closely ap- pressed, faintly glandular pitted or glandless. On young, vigor- ous plants or on strong shoots the leaves are more spreading, needle- like, and twice as long. The flowers, which open in early spring, are yellow, the staminate oblong, 4-sided, 3 or 4 mm. long, composed of 6 to 8 stamens, their connectives peltate and somewhat broader than long; the pistillate flowers are 3 mm. long, their scales sharp-pointed and somewhat spreading. The cones are nearly globular or short-oblongj to 2 cm. in diameter, reddish brown or purplish, and shining, composed of 6 to 8 scales with blunt or sometimes sharp-pointed low and broad central projections. The seeds, usually about 20 on each fertile scale, are light brown and shining, irregularly 4-angled, and about 3 mm. long. The wood is soft, brittle, and weak, close-grained and Ught brown; its specific gravity is about It is seldom cultivated in America, but in Europe is known
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