stands are scattered north and west of Boston (Sorrie 

 and Woolsey 1987). Rhode Island contains more 

 than 1 30 stands in four of the State's five counties (D. 

 Lowry, pers. comm.). There are records of 39 'C. thy- 

 oides wetlands extant in Connecticut (K. Metzler, 

 pers. comm.); a half century ago Noyes (1939) 

 counted 86 stands, 72% of them in the two 

 easternmost counties of New London and Windham. 

 Two small cedar bogs are all that remain in mainland 

 New York State (Lynn 1984), but many stands persist 

 in southeastern Long Island (J. Turner, pers. comm.). 



While extensive cedar wetlands are found south of 

 the limit of glaciation in the Pine Barrens of southern 

 New Jersey, only seven are known from the glaciated 

 part of the State (D. Snyder pers. comm.). Early 

 reports (e.g., John Bartram's 18th century letters 

 [Darlington 1849]; Kalm's 1753-1761 diary [Benson 

 1966]) described rich cedar forests in the eastern tip 

 of Pennsylvania at the New Jersey border, but 

 Chamaecyparis has been extirpated in Pennsylvania 

 for many years (illick 1928). 



Figure 1 1 . The historical distribution of C. thyoides in towns of the glaciated northeastern United States (from 

 Laderman et al. 1987). 



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