30G TAXODIUM ; OR 



ones rather pendulous ; branchlets, very slender, and elegantly- 

 pinnated. Male and female flowers on the same plant. The 

 male catkins are produced in flexible pendulous aments, and 

 the female ones in very small bunches. Cones, somewhat 

 rounded, or roundish- ovate, from one to one inch and a half in 

 diameter, and about the size of a pigeon's egg, hard, and un- 

 even on the surface. Scales, thick, slightly striated, dull 

 brown, raised in the middle, with a small mucro in the centre, 

 which soon disappears after maturity ; seeds compressed. This 

 tree is rather pyramidal Avhen young, but when old and full 

 grown, has flat, horizontal branches, and becomes a lofty tree, 

 120 feet high, and from twenty-five to forty feet in circum- 

 ference at the base, covering large tracts of country in the 

 swamps of the southern states of North America. 



The Deciduous Cypress is found growing along the banks of 

 rivers, and in swamps from the Delaware, which may be consi- 

 dered its northern boundary, to Florida ; in Maryland and Vir- 

 ginia it is confined to within view of the sea, where the winters 

 are milder, and the summer more intense. In Carolina and 

 Georgia, it occupies a great part of the swamps, which border 

 the rivers in the lowlands, and in East Florida, Louisiana, and 

 those parts of the marshes, where the deciduous Cypress almost 

 alone occupy, are called Cypress swamps, and cover thousands 

 of acres. The Americans call it the * Bald Cypress,' the * Black 

 Cypress,' and the ' White Cypress,' as it varies very much in 

 appearance according to soil and situation. The roots of large 

 trees, particularly in very moist situations, produce conical pro- 

 tuberances above ground, frequently from one to two feet high, 

 and sometimes three or four feet in thickness, but always hollow 

 in the centre, smooth on the outside, and covered with a reddish 

 bark, and called Cypress knees by the Indians. 



There are the following varieties : — 



