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spurs or broad bud* ; the sterile globular, yellow; tlie fertile oval, crimson- 



red, being the color of the brae'-. 



L. Europaea, EUKOPEAX LARCH, the one generally planted : a fine fast- 

 growing tree, with leaves about 1' long, and longer cones of numenni^ >calcs. 



L. Americana, AMKUICAX L., TAMARACK or HACKMATACK. Swamps 

 N. : slender tree with shorter and paler leaves, and small cou.es of few ><-a!r.-, 

 only ' or j|' l<>ng. 



4. CEDRUS, CEDAR, i. e. of Lebanon. (Ancient Greek name.) Wood 

 reddi>h, I'ra-raiu. Cult, for ornament, but precarious in this climate. 



C. Libani, CKDAR OF LEBANON ; with dark foliage and stiff horizontal 

 branches, the terminal shoot erect : not hardy E. of New York. 



C. Deodara, DKOI.AI: C. of Himalayas ; with lighter drooping spray on 

 young trees, and whitish foliage : seems unlikely to flourish in this country. 



5. CRYPTOMERIA. (Name, from the Greek, means concealed parts or 

 joint*. ) Evergreen tree from Japan. 



C. Jap6nica, not hardy X. but often in conservatories ; leaves crowded, 

 awl-shaped, many-ranked, edgewise and deeurrent on the stem. 



6. TAXODIUM, BALD-CYPRESS. (Name, from the Greek, means 

 Yew-like: the resemblance is only in the shape of the leaves.) Fl. before 

 the leaves, in earliest spring. 



T. distichum, AMERICAN B. or SOI-THERX CYPRESS. Large tree in 

 swamps 8., and planted, even N. : branchlets slender, many of them falling in 

 autumn like leaf>talks ; 'eaves light green, ' long, narrow-linear, 2-ranked, on 

 some flower-bearing shoots awl-shaped and imbricated ; cones 1' or less thick. 



7. SEQUOIA, REDWOOD. (Named for the Cherokee half-breed Indian 

 See-qua- i/a It, who invented an alphabet for his nation.) Very celebrated, 

 gigantic, Californian trees, with fibrous bark, not unlike that of Taxodium, 

 and soft, fissile, dull-red wood. Neither species is hardy in New England, 

 or safe in the Middle States ; but the second is disposeil to stand. 



S. sempdrvirens, Common Redwood of the coast ranges of California ; 

 with flat and linear acute leaves 2-ranked on the branches, but small awl-shaped 

 and scattered ones on the erect or leading shoots, and small globular cones 

 (barely 1' long). 



S. gigant^a, GIAXT REDWOOD (in England called WKLLIXGTOXIA) of the 

 rierra Nevada; with all the leaves awl-shaped and distributed round the branch; 

 cones ovoid, l'-2' long. 



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8. CUPRESSUS, CYPRESS. Classical name of the Oriental Cypress, 

 namely, 



C. sempdrvirens, planted only far S. ; stiff narrow tree, with slender 

 ;reet branchlets, dark foliage, and cone 1' in diameter, each scale many-seeded. 



C. thujoides, WHITE CEDAR. Tree of low grounds S. & E., with white 

 'aluablc wood, slender spray, and pale glaucous-green triangular-a\vl-sba| ed 

 eaves much liner than in Arbor Vita; ; cones hardly ' wide, with few seeds to 

 each scale, and tbe-e almost wingless. 



C. Lawsoniana, of N. California, recently much planted, and if fully hardy 



promising to be very ornamental ; has thickly set and plume-like tiat spray, of 

 bluish-green hue, and cones scarcely above j' in thickness, their scales bearing 

 '2-4 ovules and ripening 2 or .'? seeds. 



C. pisifera, or KKTINOSPOKA I-ISIKERA (of which C. oitTTSA is seemingly 

 n form with the scale ->haped leaves blunter and cone larger), is a scarcely hardy 

 species, introduced from Japan, the cones only as large as peas (to which the 

 specific name refers), a single pair of broad-winced seeds to each scale. 



C. squarr6sa, or BRICOIDBB, from Japan, is perfectly hardy N., perhaps 

 a variety of the last, but of strikingly different appearance, bearing only loose 

 and awl-shaped leaves. 



