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near one hundred feet nigh, growing in damp 

 soils, on a basaltic substratum. 



It is perfectly hardy with us, and has a 

 beautiful light-green appearance through 

 summer. In winter it becomes quite brown. 



CuPRESSUS, Tournefort. Nat. Orel. Pi- 

 naceae. Monoecia, Monadelphia, Linn. Male 

 flowers in catkins. Calyx, a scale of the 

 catkin, bearing four sessile anthers. Female 

 flowers heaped in a roundish cone, without a 

 corolla. Styles concave, ovaries eight, in a 

 receptacle. Fruit, a strobile. 



1. C. THYOIDES, Linnaeus. Leaves acute, 

 flat, imbricated. White cedar. Native of 

 the Middle States. 



Frequently grows thirty feet high, and at 

 first sight resembles the red cedar. It has a 

 very slender, straight trunk, and the branches 

 grow erect, giving the tree a very slim ap 

 pearance. It delights in a low, wet situation, 

 and is therefore often valuable as thriving 

 where few others will. A specimen at Bar- 

 tram, on rather dry soil, is twenty feet high 

 and nine inches in circumference. 



It can be propagated from seeds or cuttings. 



