. 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. 98 The Cypresses I. MONTEREY CYPRESS —Cupressns macrocarpa Hartweg Cupressus Hartwegi Carriere This very local tree is confined to a narrow strip of coast land, only several miles long, near Monterey bay, California, where it thrives under the most severe exposure and attains a maximum height of 21 meters, with a trunk diameter of about 2 meters. The tnmk is short. The branches of young trees are slender and quite erect,
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. 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. 98 The Cypresses I. MONTEREY CYPRESS —Cupressns macrocarpa Hartweg Cupressus Hartwegi Carriere This very local tree is confined to a narrow strip of coast land, only several miles long, near Monterey bay, California, where it thrives under the most severe exposure and attains a maximum height of 21 meters, with a trunk diameter of about 2 meters. The tnmk is short. The branches of young trees are slender and quite erect, forming a compact conic tree; on old trees they are often much contorted, form- ing broad, picturesque, flat-topped heads. The bark is 18 to 25 mm. thick, irregularly divided into more or less connected broad and low ridges, which readily split up into close long nar- row scales. The younger bark is dark reddish brown, but on old trunks it is grayish white. The twigs are stout, becoming reddish brown and scaly after the leaves fall from them. The leaves are dark green, broadly ovate, 2 mm. long, closely appressed, or somewhat spreading at the pointed apex, thickened, slightly glandular-pitted and longitudinally furrowed on the back; on young, spreading twigs they are needle- shaped, stiff, about 10 mm. long. The flowers, opening in February or March, are very numerous and yel- low, the staminate oblong, 4-sided, 3 mm. long, composed of 6 to 8 sta- mens, the connective nearly round, with 4 to 6 pollen sacs. The pistillate flowers are oblong, 3 mm. long, their scales sharp and spreading. The. Fig. 73. — Monterey Cypress. cones are in clusters, short-stalked, nearly globular or a little longer than thick, 2.5 to 3.5 cm. long, light brown, composed of 8 to 12 scales with short thick central projections; seeds crowded imder the fertile scales, each of which bears about 20; they are angular, bright brown, about 3 mm. long. The wood is hard and strong, but rather brittle, close-gr