8 KEY TO GENERA AND SPECIES 



long, blunt, narrowed at the 

 base, but without a distinct 

 sharply denned leaf-stalk; 

 often whitened beneath and 

 sometimes more or less Fig I0 Bald Cy _ 



Curved 12. press.' a. Side view 



. of normal shoot; 



ii. Leaves to f of an inch long, b. Glyptostrobus 

 pointed at the apex, green shoot - 

 or yellow-green on both surfaces,* falling 

 from the tree in the autumn (i. e., de- 

 ciduous), narrowed at the base but without 

 a distinct leaf-stalk,f spreading along two 

 sides of the twig. Swamps from Del. south- 



Bald Cypress. 



* Very rarely somewhat whitened beneath. 



t There is another form of this tree (or occasionally branches of 

 a tree) with short appressed sharply pointed leaves, and slender 

 almost pendulous branches. (Fig. icb.) This is the form which 

 formerly passed in cultivation as Glyptostrobus pendulus Endl. 



