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fork Sipsey Eiver, altitude 1,200 to 1,500 feet, to Clear Creek Falls, about 800 feet. 



In detached groves. 



Type locality : " Hab. in America septentnonali."' 



Economic uses: Important timber tree. Bark valuable for tauniug. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



TAXODIUM L.C.Rich. Ann. Mus. Far. 16:278. 1810. IUld Cypress. 



Three species, 2 In Mexico, 1 in Atlantic Xorth America, 1 in China. 



Taxodium distichum (L.) L. C. Rich. Ann. Mus. Par. 16 : 298. 1810. 



Swamp Cypress, Red Cypress, White Cy'press, Black Cypress. 



Citpressus disiicha L. Sp. PI. 2 : 1003. 17.53. 

 Schubertia disticha Mirbel, Mem. Mas. Par. 13 : 75. 1825. 



Michx. f. Hist. Arb. Am. 3:1,/. 1. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 493, Chap. Fl. 435. Coulter, 

 Contr. Xat. Herb. 2 : 555. 



Mexico. 



Carolinian and Louisiauian areas. Southern Delaware west to Kentucky; south- 

 ern Indiana, Illinois; southern Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee; south throughout the 

 low country to Florida, western Texas, and northern Mexico. Region of best develop- 

 ment, alluvial swamps of the Atlantic coast from North Carolina to west Florida 

 and the lower Alabama, Tombigbee, and Mississippi rivers. 



Alabama: Tennessee Valley to the coast in alluvial soil; January and February; 

 fruit matures first year October to December. Valuable timber tree of largest 

 dimensions. 



Type locality : '• Hab. in Virginia, Carolina." 



Economic uses: Most valuable timber tree, the largest of Atlantic North America. 



Herb. Geol. Surv, Herb. Mohr. 



Taxodium distichum imbricaria (Nutt.) Sudworth, Nomenc. Arb. Fl. U. S. 60. 1897. 



Pond Cypress, Upland Cy'press. 



Cupressus disticha var. imbricaria Nutt. Gen. PL 2 : 224. 1818. 



Louisiauian area. From North Carolina to Florida and Mississippi. 



Alabama : Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Mobile, Baldwin, and Escambia 

 counties. 



Of smaller size than the species, with the leaves reduced in size and clo.sely 

 adpressed to the deciduous branchlets, thus imparting to the tree a strikingly pecu- 

 liar aspect. This character, however, is not constant, and the variety can scarcely 

 be maintained, the same individual producing during the earliest stages of growth 

 and on vigorous adventitious shoots leaves of the ordinary form. 



This form passes freely into the species where the soil conditions are more favorable. 



Type locality : " Found from Florida to North Carolina, in swamps and ponds more 

 remote from the sea." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



CHAMAECYPARIS Spach, Hist. Veg. 11 : 329. 1842, White Cedar. 



Six or 7 species. China, Japan, Mexico. North America 2 species, Pacitic Coast 1. 

 Chamaecyparis thyoides (L.) B, S, P. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 71. 1888, 



('iq)rcs8((s thyoides L. Sp. PL 2 : 1003. 1753. 



Thuya spliaeroidca Spreng. Syst. Veg. 3 : 889, 1826. 



Chamaecyparis sphaeroidea Spach, Hist. Veg. 331. 1842. 



Michx. L Hist. Arb. Am. 3 : 20, 1. 12. Ell. Sk. 2 : 644. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 493. Chap. 

 F1.435. 



Carolinian and Louisiauian areas. Coast of southern New England to New York, 

 with southern New Jersey ; coast of Virginia and adjacent parts of North Carolina — 

 tills is the region of its greatest development; south along the coast to northern 

 Florida and the Gulf coast to eastern Louisiana. Reported also from Ohio, sovithern 

 Indiana, and southern Illinois. 



Alabama: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. In sphagnous swamps of a sour 

 peaty soil. Escambia County, along the head waters of Escambia River. Baldwin 

 County, Fish River. Mobile County, most frequeut on the i)inc-barren streauis 

 emptying into Mobile Bay and Mobile River. Flowers November, December; fruit 

 ripe in June. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Canada. Kalm." 



Herb, Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. i 



JUNIPERUS L. Sp, PL 2:10.38. 1753. 



About 25 species. Northeru Hemisphere, Europe, Asia to Japan, Mexico. North 

 America 12 species; 3 in the Atlantic States. 



