KEY TO GENERA AND SPECIES 5 



ward in the mountains, and cult. (Figs. 5, 6.) 

 Arbor Vitae, Cedar, White Cedar, Thuja 

 occidentalis L. 



Fig. 6. Arbor Vitae. 



7. Young leafy shoots not conspicuously flat- 



tened 8. 



8. Leaves of two kinds; (a) awl-shaped and spiny 



pointed and whitened above, less than \ 

 inch long, more common on young trees, but 

 generally present also on some parts of older 

 trees; (b) small and scale-like, smallest and 

 youngest shoots conspicuously 4-angled. Fruit 

 a bluish white berry-like cone about j of an 

 inch or less thick. Trees of drier situations 

 dry sandy fields and hillsides rarely in low 

 wet ground. Southern Me. and N. H. south- 

 ward and westward. (Figs. 2, 3, 4.) Red 

 Cedar, Savin, Juniperus virginiana L. 



