DIOECIA MONADELPKIA. 



717 



ma. 



Corolla 



Sta- 



mina 3. 



Foemineu 



Calyx 



3-partitus. Petala 3? 



Styli 3. Bacca 1 

 sperma, tuberculata. 



3 



Sta 



Ca 



scale. Qorolla 0. 

 mens 3. 



F er tile Jlor els , 

 lyx 3-parted. Petals 3. 

 Styles 3. Berry 1 

 3 seeded, tuberculate. 



1. ViRGINIANA. 



Lin. 



/ 



J. foliis ternis, basi | Leaves ternate^ imi- 



adiiatis^ junioribus pa 

 tulis, senioribus 

 pressis^ imbricatis. 



ap 



ted 



at 



base^ 



when 



young expanded^ when 

 old oppressed^ imbri- 

 cate. 



Sp. pL 4. p. 853. Walt, p, 243. Mich. 2. p. 245- Pursh, 2. p. 647 



Nutt. 2. p. 245. 

 Mich. arb. for. 3. 



p. 42, 

 growth 



generally covered with horizontal branches; in thick woods it grows like 

 the firj tall and slender; in old fields it extends like tlie live oak, and in such 

 situations sometimes attains the height of 40 or 50 feet and a diameter of 2 

 3- Leaver very small, resembling scales, verticillate by threes, on young 

 shoots expanding and very acute, on old branches closely imbricate. Florv- 

 ers axillary/ Anient of sterile florets very small. Berry dry, 1 — 2 seeded, 

 roughened with the persistent calyx. (^Seeds puciforra. Nutt.) 

 :^ The wood, leaves and berries of this tree have all an aromatic flavour. 

 The wood is light, close grained, reddish purple, and perhaps- more durable 

 than any other timber in our country. Those which grow along the sea- 

 coast with their roots partially immersed in salt-water, though smaller in 

 their dimensions, are much more durable than those which inliabit the fo- 

 rests» Often when surrounded and finally destroyed by the encroachments 

 of the salt-water, their bodies remain in the marshes for an indefinite period, 

 the roosting places of vultures and of sea-birds, become incrusted with pul- 

 verulent lichens and seem to moulder away like rock rather than decay like 

 a vegetable product. 



The timber of the Red Cedar is extensively used by ship carpenters and 

 boat builders, by cabinet makers and turners, and is in many articles of do- 

 mestic use. The aroma of the wood is so disagreea!)lc to insects that in 

 chests newly made woollens may be preserved for one or two years without 

 receiving any injury from moths. 



Grows in almost all soils; very common along the sea-coast of Carolina 

 and Georgia; more rare in the interior country. In the state of Alabama, 

 however, at a distance from the oceanj it sometimes is found covering almost 

 exclusively many acres of land. 



Flowers April. *^ - ' 



