JUNIPERACEAE 9 
aments in panieled spikes or racemes.  Ovulate ci with peltate scales. 
Cone de ane globular or obovoid, the scales woody, stalked. Seed wingless. 
—Comprises three species of the southern Atlantic and a seaboard.—Spr.— 
The "ot has exceptionally durable qualities.—CYPRESSES.—Inhabitants of low 
grounds 
Leaves 2-ranked, widely spreading: branchlets usually horizontal: bark thin, com- 
paratively smooth. 1. T. distichum. 
Leaves appressed to the erect branchlets; bark thick, strongly 
furrowed. 2. T. ascendens. 
1. T. distichum (L.) L. C. Rich. Tree becoming 50 m. tall, the eae b dus 
eonie, narrowly ridged, the bark thin, relatively smooth: leaves 
long, often curved: cone globular abou t 
2.5 em. in diameter: seed 8-10 mm.' ong.— 
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or rarely rocky slopes, often over calcareous 
en agree Plain and rarely adj. prov- 
in Tex. Mo. ; 
o "rare along udson Riv Y 
whe erhaps coves The character 
istic cypress of river sw O y 
large tree with the E te lly taper- 
ing near the base. It is usually copiously 
branched. 
2. T. ascendens Brongn. Tree BE eed 
smaller than T. distichum, but B 
e fruit, he p 
less abundant, the trunk with a conoidal broadly ridged base: leaves incurved ; 
blades 0.5-1 em. long. [Z. imbricarium (Nutt. arper.|—(PoNnD D-CYPRESS.) 
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dry barrens, Coastal Plain, Fla. and Va.—The cypress of ponds and. 
m wee e es. It is less us c. the preceding. The bark is rougher 
than t of T. distichum, and as a consequence the trees are sometimes 
iD. infested with air -plants. 
2. THUJA L. i en trees. Leaves seale-like, 4-ranked, often with a 
gland on the back. Staminate aments solitary. Ovulate ament with imbricate 
scales. Cone drooping, ellipsoi or ovoid, the scales leathery, lax. Seeds 
winged on both sides.—About 15 species, native of North America and Asia. 
Only two species in America, one in the 
eastern part and one in the western.— 
ARBORVITAES. 
T. occidentalis L. Tree up to 18 m 
posed f id ves appressed, those of 
the branches 5-7 mm. long: staminate ament 
glo d ose: "E id ament with erect scale-tips: 
9-1 ong; scales obtuse, each 
apiculate below ‘the P pcm A HITE-CEDAR. 
AN- E.)—Swamps or rocky 
emu p pirum "Blue Ri des and 
more northern T e N. C. and Tenn. 
to Man. and N —Spr — of the cool . 
climate pee Rees in range only in the mountains. It is used in 
horticulture. The wood has few uses in ^ the industries 
