Pinus PINACEAE Chamaecyparis 



^ P. virginiana Mill. (P. inops Ait.) Scrub Pine. 



Common throughout; forming extensive pure stands in the 

 southern portion. 



P. echinata Mill. Shortleaf Pine. 



Infrequent in Delaware and Maryland; one known report from 

 Cecil County: Elk Neck, W. L. Ahhott, 1923 (A). 



Tsuga Carr. Hemlock. 

 T. canadensis (L.) Carr, Eastern Hemlock. 



A single tree on the banks of Red Clay Creek at Greenbank 

 (NC), first reported by Commons in 1856, is still standing, and is 

 believed not to have been planted; several trees on the bank of 

 Drawyers Creek, near Odessa (NC), may have sprung from planted 

 trees in the grounds of near-by Drawyers Church. 



On the banks of Tuckahoe Creek, in both Caroline and Talbot 

 Counties, south of Hillsboro, and along Choptank River and 

 Watts Creek, below Denton (Ca), there are Hemlock groves of 

 considerable extent. These appear to be native stands, probably 

 remnants of an ancient forest. 



Taxodium Richard 

 T. distichum Rich. Bald Cypress. 



River swamps, stream banks and ponds, from lower Sussex 

 County southward to the Virginia line. 



The "Great Cypress or Cedar Swamp," about 15 square miles 

 in area, extending from Frankford and Selbyville on the east to 

 Gumboro on the west, and crossing the line into Worcester County, 

 was explored by Thomas Nuttall in 1809; (See Bartonia No. 20, 1. 

 1940). It was formerly a center of supply for the logs from which 

 "Cypress" shingles were made, but destruction of the swamp forest 

 by fire, and the exhaustion of the supply of submerged trunks, have 

 practically put an end to this once-flourishing local industry. 



Chamaecyparis Spach 



1^ C. thyoides (L.) BSP. White Cedar. 



In fresh- water swamps and on the banks of ponds and streams; 

 rare in New Castle County: Cedar Swamp, Commons, 1867 (A); 

 frequent in the central portions of the Peninsula and southward. 



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