48 CHAM.ECTPARIS ; OR 



spirally-twisted footstalks, more or less opposite, and furnished 

 with a long acute spiny point at the apex. Branches, on the 

 stem in whorls, spread out horizontally, and extended ; branch- 

 lets arranged in two rows laterally, flat, and spreading. Male 

 flowers in globular heads. Fruit, drupaceous, oval-pointed, 

 fleshy, and about the size of a small walnut. Seeds, solitary, 

 egg-shaped, tapering much to the apex, one inch long, and three- 

 quarters of an inch in diameter, with a hard, thick, woody shell, 

 more or less fluted on the outside. Seed-leaves in twos, short, 

 and rather rounded. 



A fine evergreen tree, with horizontal, much-extended 

 branches, found in the northern parts of China, and on the 

 mountains of Japan. 



It is quite hardy. 



Gen. CHAMiECYPARIS. Spach. The White Cedar. 



Flowers, monoecious, or male and female on the same plant, 

 but separate and terminal. Male catkins cylindrical, female 

 ones globular. 



Cones, ligneous, small, globular or oblong, numerous, and 

 covered with a glaucous bloom. 



Scales, mostly seven in number, oblong or rounded, shield- 

 shaped and in alternate opposite pairs. 



Seeds, convex, a little flattened on one side, hard shelled, in 

 sunken grooves, two at the base of each scale, and either wingless 

 or very slightly furnished with rudimentary ones. 



Leaves, scale-formed, in opposite pairs, four-rowed, with a 

 sunken groove or gland on the back, glaucous and persistent. 



Seed-leaves, in twos. 



Name derived from ' Chamse,' ground ; ' Cyparis,' the Cy- 

 press, the ground or swamp Cypress. 



All evergreen trees, fouiad in North America, and Mexico. 



