THE GTMNOSPERM TREES 



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They differ from other trees having this ieaif habit in that the 

 branchlets are four angled, and not flattened. The spherical cones 

 are made up of six to ten thick, woody, pyramidal scales. The few 

 native species are found scattered through the southwest, where 

 two species are sawed locally for timbers. 



The Cedars 



The CEDARS {Chamaecyparis) are included in the cypress genus 

 by some botanists, and many of them are known locally as 



Fig. 194. — Cypress has 

 small scale-like overlapping 

 leaves. 



Fig. 195. — True ce- 

 dars have small scale-like 

 leaves and spherical 

 cones. 



"cypresses." The leaves are small, scale-like, arranged in alter- 

 nating pairs, and closely overlapping on the stems. The 

 branchlets may be flattened or round; thus they are seen to 

 resemble those of the Arbor vitaes. They may be distinguished 

 from the latter by their noticeably finer and more delicate sprays. 

 The cones are spherical and not over one-half inch in diameter 

 (fig. 195). 



There are three species native to North America, one being a 

 coastal species of the east, the other two limited in their distribu- 

 tion to the Pacific coast. Southern white cedar, or coast white 

 CEDAR as it is often called, is a moderately tall, slender tree. One 

 of the most beautiful of our eastern conifers, it has several varie- 



