644 



M'ONOECIA MONADELPHIA 



distichous. It is perhaps only a stunted variety, growing in an unfavourable 



soil. 



Flowers in February. 



2. ThyoiOes. 



Lin. 



sis; 



C ramiil 

 foliis 



is quadrifaria 

 imbricatis, ovatis, ba 

 tuberculatis 

 globosii 



? 



b 



} 



parvis 



Branches compress- 

 ed; leaves in 4 rows 

 imbricate, ovate, tuber- 

 culate at base; cones 

 spherical, small. 



p. 646. Nutt. 2. p. 224 



^« 



Sp. pi. 4. p! 512. Mich. 2. p. 208. Pursh, 

 Icon. JMich. arb. for. 3. p. 20. 



A tree of moderate dimensions, sometimes however attaining the height of 

 70 or 80 feet in height, and from 2 to 3 in diameter. The leaves are peren- 

 nial, nearly resemWing scales, imbricate on the compressed branches. i< wip- 

 ers axillary among the small branches. Cone globular, on a short pedicel ^ 

 to 4 lines in diameter. The scales somewhat rhomboidal. ^ 



The wood of this tree is soft, fine-grained, light and durable. It has near- 

 ly all the good quahties of the Cupressus Disticha; and, therefore, where it 

 is abundant, it is applied as far as its size will admit, to all of the uses tor 



which that species is employed. -the 



Grows in the great niorasses which are found near the sea-coast m tn 



Middle States. In the Southern States it becomes rare. I ^^^f °^^" '"' 

 formed that it grows in and around the savannas in Horry and WilhamsDu g 

 Districts. Michaux mentions that he heard of it as far south as the boraer 

 of the Savannah River. 



Flowers 



ACALYPHA. Gen. Pl. 1461. 



Masculi, Calyx 3 

 s. 4-phylIiis. Corolla 



0. 



Stamina 8 



16. 



Foeminei, Caly 



Pb} 



Corolla 



3- 

 0. 



Shjli 3. Capsula 3 



locularis. Semen 1. 



Sterile florets 



lyx 3 

 roUa 0. 



16. 



4 leaved. 



Fertile Floret 



Ca- 

 Co- 



Stamens 8 



lyx 3-leaved 



0. Styles 3 



3-celled. Seed 

 each cell. 



Corolla 



Capsule 



^nft in 



