CONIFERJE. (PINE FAMILY.) 443 
banks, N. New England to Wisconsin, chiefly northward, where it 
forms extensive “cedar-swamps,” and bears the name of White Ce¬ 
dar. — Tree 30°-50°high, straight, with recurved branches, yield¬ 
ing a pungent aromatic oil: wood light, but exceedingly durable. 
^^PBESSUS} Tourn. Cypress. 
Flowers monoecious on different branches, in terminal small 
catkins. Sterile catkins composed of shield-shaped scale-like fila¬ 
ments bearing 2-4 anther-cells under the lower margin. Fertile 
catkins globular, of shield-shaped scales in 4 ranks, bearing sev¬ 
eral erect bottle-shaped ovules. Cone globular, firmly closed, but 
opening at maturity; the scales thick and woody, pointed or 
bossed in the middle; the few or several narrowly winged seeds 
attached to their contracted base or stalk. Cotyledons 2 or 3. — 
Strong-scented evergreen trees, with very email and scale-like 
closely appressed-imbricated leaves, and exceedingly durable wood. 
(The cJassical name.) 
C ’ *V yOHlCS > L ' (White Cedar.) Leaves minute, ovate, 
with a small gland on the back, closely imbricated in 4 rows on the 
2-edged branchlets; anther-cells 2 under each scale. — Swamps Mas¬ 
sachusetts to Ohio, southward. May. — Tree 3ff>-70° high; the 
wood and fibrous shreddy bark, as well as the foliage, much like the 
Arbor \ itae; but the spray much more slender, the leaves finer and 
dull glaucous-green. Cone scarcely larger than a pea, few-seeded. 
6. TAXODIUl, Richard. Bald Cypress. 
Flowers monoecious on the same branches. Sterile catkins 
spiked-panicled, of few stamens : filaments scale-like, shield-shap¬ 
ed, bearing 2-5 anther-cells. Fertile catkins ovoid, in small 
clusters, scaly, with 2 ovules at the base of each scale. Cone 
globular, closed, composed of very thick and angular somewhat 
shield-shaped scales, bearing 2 angled seeds at their base. Coty¬ 
ledons 6-9.— Trees with linear 2-ranked and deciduous leaves. 
(Name compounded ofTdfos, the Yew , and el Soy, resemblance.) 
distielmm, Richard. (American Bald Cypress.) 
Leaves linear, strictly 2-ranked and spreading; sometimes awl-shap¬ 
ed and imbricated on the flowering branchlets. — Swamps, S. New 
ersey and Delaware, common southward, where it is a very large 
and valuable tree. Foliage very light. 
