436 CONIFER. (PINE FAMILY.) 
bricated. (Cupressus disticha, Z.) — Ponds and deep swamps. Florida, and 
northward. Feb..and March.— A very large tree, with pale smoothish bark, 
light durable wood, and few fastigiate branches at the summit. Leaves 4" - 6" 
' long. Cones j/-1' in diameter. Attached to the roots are hollow conical knobs 
called Cypress-Knees. ; 
6. THUJA, Town. Ansonz-Virx. 
Flowers monecious. Aments small, terminal. Anther-cells 4, with a scale- 
like connective. Carpellary scales imbricated in four rows, with two erect ovules 
at the base. Cone oblong, the few scales imbricated, expanding at maturity, 
persistent. Seed winged. Cotyledons 2, oblong. — Trees or shrubs, with scale- 
like imbricated persistent leaves. 
1. T. occidentalis, L. (Arsor-Virx.) Branches flat, distichous ; leaves 
ovate, obtuse, with a gland on the back, imbricated in four rows; cones oblong, 
nodding, with the outer scales oblong, obtuse; seeds broadly winged, emarginate 
at each end. — Rocky banks on the mountains of Carolina, and northward. — 
„A small or middle-sized tree. Cones }/ long. | 
' 7. TAXUS, Tourn. Yew. 
Flowers dicecious, axillary ; the sterile ones in globular few-flowered aments. 
Anther-cells 3-8, inserted under the peltate scale. Fertile flowers solitary, 
scaly-bracted, consisting of a single ovule on a cup-shaped disk, which becomes 
large and berry-like in fruit, and surrounds the nut-like seed. Embryo in the 
axis of mealy albumen. — Trees or shrubs, with scattered branches, linear rigid 
distichous leaves, and scaly buds. 
1. T. Floridana, Nutt. Leaves narrowly linear, mucronate, conspicuously 
petioled (about 9” long), the outer margin revolute; fruit abundant; the fleshy 
disk of the seed bright red. — Banks of the Apalachicola River, Middle Florida. 
— A small tree, 109 —209 high. g 
8. TORREYA, Arnott. 
Flowers dicecious, axillary; the sterile ones in globose or oblong aments. 
‘Anther-cells 4, inserted under the peltate scale. Fertile flowers solitary, ex 
sisting of a solitary ovule surrounded with imbricated persistent scales. + E 
none. Seed large, ovoid, naked. Embryo at the apex of hard ruminated albu- 
men. Cotyledons 2, linear. — Trees, with whorled branches. Leaves distichous, 
rigid, persistent. Buds scaly. 
1. T. taxifolia, Arn. Branchlets opposite, 2-ranked ; leaves linear, Lor 
pointed, neat ly sessile, light green; sterile aments yellow, crowded ; seed ovoid, 
‘drape-like. — Rich soil, along the east bank of the Apalachicola River, Middle 
