10 JUNIPERACEAE 
3. BIOTA Endl. Evergreen trees. ea placed in a vertical plane, 
with both sides alike. Leaves scale-like, 4-ranked, with a gland on the back. 
Staminate aments solit Ovulate dd with fleshy imbrieate seales. Cone 
erect, slightly slongate, A scales S 
each with ook below the apex 
Seeds i ingles Sv 6 ne na 
native of eastern Asia, and widely cult 
yu dme. 
l. B. orientalis (L.) Endl. Tree 9 m. 
tall or less, the branches in vertically dis- 
esse 7 (0) e 
t ate ament 
E ovulate ament vith cured scale- 
tips: cone erect, mostly 15-25 mm. long; 
scales hooked below the apex. [Thuja orien- Ni 
talis L.]—(CHINESE-ARBORVITAE. ASIATIC- | 
ARBORVITAE.)— Sandy soil, coast of Fla. Nat. of Asia.—All year.—Not 
bed naturalized, but persistent about abandoned parem and er 
spon 
4. CHAMAECYPARIS Spach. Trees. Leaves scale-like and imbricate, 
each with a gland on the back, or sometimes subulate on twigs. Staminate 
aments terminal. Ovulate aments with peltate scales. (ous spreading, globu- 
lar: scales woody, appendage 
winged. About 7 species, two in western 
orth America and several in eastern Asia. 
—CYPRESSES. 
1. C. us ae B. S. P. Rl i pun 
tree becom tall: leav 
long, Bey ae the lateral hoi po 
the vertical convex:  staminate 
a ovulate ament glau- 
cous, the scales with hyaline appendages 
cone globular, 2 ter: 
seed narrowly winged [C : Fe elie 
Spach. ] — ( WHITE- CEDAR. ) — Acid swamps, 
Co d Plain and rarely adj. E ovinees, N F o Miss. and Me 
.—Spr.—À 
E pisa s 2 n bes rdg nud s habit, but with quite different 
mode of branching. The natural growth is being 
rapidly des by. RE the trees for e poles. The wood has many 
in the industries. 
5. JUNIPERUS [Tourn.] L. Shrubs or trees. Leaves in 3’s, subulate, 
neither imbricate nor appressed, glandless. Staminate aments axillary. Ovu- 
late ament with ovules alternate with the scales. Cone baccate. Seeds wingless. 
—Spr.— ists of ten or fifteen species, mostly in the more northern parts of 
the aoa hemisphere.—JUNIPERS. 
A depressed shrub, with creeping branches: leaves abruptly bent at the s c 
channeled, rather abruptly pointed. 1. J. sibiri 
A tree; leaves straight or nearly so, shallowly channeled, gradu- . 
ally acumi nate. 2. J. communis. 
