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powerful attractions; and where the soil is given over to agriculture the 

 production of timber of course stops. 22 



The Pond Cypress (Taxodium imbricarium, or ascendens) is con- 



Pond Cypress (Taxodium ascendens) in Very Shallow Flatwoods Pond (Dry 

 at this Time), Pasco Co., Florida. April, 1909. This species is readily distin- 

 guished from T. distichum by its crooked trunk and coarser bark, among other things. 



fined to the coastal plain, from eastern North Carolina (perhaps as far 

 north as the Dismal Swamp) to southern Florida (south end of the 

 Everglades) and eastern Louisiana. It extends over 150 miles inland 

 in the Carolinas and Georgia, but apparently not over 100 miles in 

 Alabama or 60 miles in Mississippi. It seems to be most abundant in 

 Georgia, where it does not form large forests, but is often the dominant 



22 For valuable information about the economic aspects of the long-leaf and 

 several other southeastern pines see Bulletin 13 of the Division of Forestry, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, by Dr. Charles Mohr (1896 and 1897). 



