6 KEY TO GENERA AND SPECIES 



8. Leaves of one kind only; small and scale-like, 



some of the leaves commonly with a minute 

 swelling or gland on the back. Smallest and 

 youngest shoots cylindric, not 

 conspicuously 4-angled nor flat- 

 tened. Fruit a small dry brownish 

 cone about j of an inch thick, 

 with shield-shaped scales. Trees 

 of moist situations swamps, 

 bogs, etc. rarely in dry soil. 

 Common from N. H. to Miss. 

 within 100 miles of the coast. 

 (Fig. 7.) Coast White Cedar, 

 Cedar, Chamaecyparis thyoides (L.) twig. 

 BSP. 



9. Leaves less than of an inch wide 10. 



9. Leaves more than of an inch wide 13. 



10. Leaves three at a node, | to f of an inch long 



and about ^ of an inch wide, all alike; whit- 

 ened on the real upper surface (which is 

 commonly turned towards the ground) and 

 green on the lower surface, spiny pointed. 

 Rarely a small tree, generally a shrub. Cen- 

 tral New England and southward in the 

 mountains. Common Juniper, Juniperus 

 communis L. The low spreading Dwarf 



