154 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. CONIFERS. 
cultivated in England, where it had been introduced by John Tradescant.’ It is often cultivated in the 
parks and gardens of the eastern United States, especially in the form with acicular leaves, and is hardy 
as far north as eastern Massachusetts. In Europe it has been a favorite ornamental tree for at least a 
century and a half, and in France, Italy, southern Germany, and Great Britain large specimens, which, 
however, still retain their juvenile pyramidal habit, are often conspicuous objects in old parks and public 
gardens.” Numerous abnormal seminal forms have appeared in Europe,’ the most distinct being one 
with pendulous branchlets closely appressed to the trunk. 
The glory of the maritime forests of the south and one of the most valuable and interesting trees 
of the continent, the Bald Cypress,‘ with its tall massive trunk rising high above waters darkened by the 
shadows of its great crown draped in streamers of the gray Tillandsia, is an object at once magnificent 
and mournful. 
Cupressus Virginiana, foliis Acacie cornigere paribus, & deciduis, 
Plukenet, Phyt. 85, £.6; Alm. Bot. 125. 
Cupressus Virginiana, foliis Abietis moilibus atque deciduis, Breyn, 
Prodr. Sec. 40; ed. 2, ii. 59. 
Cupressus foliis distiche patentibus, Linneus, Hort. Cliff. 449. — 
Clayton, Fl. Virgin. 119.— Royen, Fl. Leyd. Prodr. 88. 
Cupressus Americana foliis deciduis, Romans, Nat. Hist. Florida, 
25. 
3 Carriére, Rev. Hort. 1859, 62, f. 10-12. — Beissner, Handb. Na- 
delh. 152. 
4 Taxodium distichum is also called Black Cypress, Red Cypress, 
and White Cypress. 
5 « The Cupressus disticha stands in the first order of North Amer- 
ican trees. Its majestic stature is surprising, and on approaching 
them, we are struck with a kind of awe at beholding the stateliness 
of the trunk, lifting its cumbrous top towards the skies, and casting 
1 See i. 20. a wide shade upon the ground, as a dark intervening cloud, which, 
? Veitch, Man. Conif. 214. —J.G. Jack, Garden and Forest, v. for a time, precludes the rays of the sun. The delicacy of its color, 
232. and texture of its leaves, exceed everything in vegetation.” (W. 
Bartram, Travels, 88.) 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Pirate DXXXVII. Taxopium pDistTicHum. 
. A flowering branch, natural size. 
A staminate flower, enlarged. 
. A scale of a staminate flower, rear view, enlarged. 
. A scale of a staminate flower, front view, enlarged. 
A pistillate flower, enlarged. 
. Diagram of a pistillate flower. 
A scale of a pistillate flower with ovaries, front view, enlarged. 
. Vertical section of a scale of a pistillate flower, side view, enlarged. 
. A fruiting branch, natural size. 
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. A partly grown fruit, enlarged. 
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. A scale of a cone with its seeds, side view, natural size. 
12. A scale of a cone, its seeds removed, natural size. 
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. A seed, natural size. 
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. Cross section of a seed, natural size. 
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. Vertical section of a seed, natural size. 
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. An embryo, enlarged. 
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. Staminate winter flower-buds, natural size. 
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. Pistillate winter-buds, natural size. 
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. Winter leaf-buds, enlarged. 
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- Vertical section of a branch with leaf-bud, enlarged. 
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. A seedling, natural size. 
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. Portion of a branch with acicular leaves, natural size. 
