Handbook of Treks of the NoiniiKKN States and Canada. 



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Thi3 is one of the most beautiful as well as 

 one of the most useful of the cone-bearing 

 trees of eastern America, liftinj,' its s|)ire 

 shaped top to a heiglit of 70 or HO ft. and 

 having a trunk eonunonly '1 ft. and oceasion- 

 ully 3 or 4 ft. in diameter. This is vested in a 

 reddish l)ro\vn lihrous bark wliich exfoliates 

 lengthwise in thin strips, giving to old forest 

 trunks a decidedly shaggy ap|)earanee. It 

 occupies quite exclusively cold swamps in tlie 

 coast region, particularly of New England 

 south of Massachusetts Bay, localities in New 

 Jersey, etc., where it forms dense forests 

 Farther south it is often found associating 

 with the Bald Cypress, Swamj) JJay, Tupelo 

 (him, Holly, Sweet Gum, Pin Oak, Laurel Oak, 

 etc. 



Its wood, of which a cubic foot when abso- 

 lutely drj' weiglis 20.70 lbs., is very light, 

 durable and u.seful in the manufacture of piils, 

 woodenware and boat building and for rail- 

 way ties, posts, etc- 



Leavcs on the ultimate l)ranclies dark glaucour; 

 Kreen, about one-sixteenth in. long, triangular- 

 ovate, acute, closely aiipressed, the lateral row.s 

 keeled and the vertical convex, each having a dis- 

 cf>id gland, making fhit l>r;uiclilets. \isiially dryin ; 

 and tiM'iiing lirown the second season and long per- 

 sisting: those on vigorous shoots about Vs in. Ion - 

 and spreading at apex, lldircrs : .^laminate with :" 

 or *■> pairs of stamens having rounded connectives; 

 pistillate suhglohose with more acute and spread 

 ing scales and blackish ovules. Cdiiis globos '. 

 about Vt in. in diameter, very glaucous at ma 

 turity, with acute or reflexed bosses and each sca'p 

 bearing 1 or 2 gray-brown seeds about Vh in. long 

 and dark brown wings as broad as the bodv.' 



1. Syn. Cuprrsstis ihyoidcs 

 sphacroidca Spacb. 



2. A. W., Ill, 74. 



;{. For genus see p. 422. 



CJiamaccylaiis 



