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CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 18 



BED CEDAR. SAVIN. 



Southern New Brunswick to the northern shores of Georgian bay, northern Michigan, Wisconsin and 

 Minnesota, south to cape Malabar and Tampa bay, Florida, and the valley of the Colorado river, Texas, west to 

 eastern Nebraska, Kansas, and the Indian territory to about the one hundredth parallel of west longitude; in 

 the Pacific region, Rocky mountains of Colorado to Vancouver's island, British Columbia; not extending to 

 western Texas, California, or Oregon ; in Utah, Nevada, and Arizona rare and local. 



The most widely distributed of N,orth American Conifenc, a tree 24 to 30 meters in height, with a trunk 0.60 

 to 1.35 meter in diameter, or toward its northern and western limits much smaller, often reduced to a. low shrub; 

 dry, gravelly ridges, and limestone hills, or in the Gulf states, especially near the coast, in deep swamps ; in 

 northern Montana, borders of streams and lakes; common; and reaching its greatest development in the valley of 

 the Red river, Texas. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, brittle, very close- and straight-grained, compact, easily worked, very durable in 

 contact with the soil ; odorous ; bands of small summer cells rather broad, conspicuous ; medullary rays numerous, 

 very obscure; color, dull red, the thin sap-wood nearly white ; specific gravity, 0.4926 ; ash, 0.13 ; largely used for 

 posts, sills, railway ties, interior finish, cabinet-making, and almost exclusively for lead-pencils. 



A decoction of the leaves is occasionally used as a substitute for saviue cerete, and an infusion of the berries 

 as a diuretic ( U. S. JMspensatory, 14 ed. 529. Nat. Dispensatory, 2 ed. 795). 



340. Taxodium distichum, Richard, 



Ann. Mns. xvi, 298; Conif. 52, t. 10. Nouvean Dnhamel, iii, 8. Robin, Voyages, iii, 525. Lambert, Pinus, 2 ed. 25 & t. Torrey, 

 Compend. Fl. N. States, 361; Bot. Mex. Boundary Surrey, 210. Brongniart in Ann. Sci. Nat. 1 ser. xxx, 182. London, Arboretum, 

 iv, 2481, f. 2335-233!). Forbes, Pinetum Woburn. 177, t. 60. Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 68, iu part. Engelmann & Gray in Jour. Boston 

 Soc. Nat. Hist, v, 234. Scheele in Roemer, Texas, Appx. 447. Lindley & Gordon in Jour. Hort. Soc. London, v, 209. Knight, Syn. 

 Conif. 20. Darlington, Fl. Cestrica, 3 ed. 295. Carriere, Trait. Conif. 143; 2ed. 180; Rev. Hort. viii, 62 & f. Morren in Belg. Hort. vi, 

 74 & t. Gordon, Pinetum, 305 ; 2 ed. 382. London Card. Chronicle, 1857, 549. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 257. Chapman, Fl. 

 S. States, 435. Curtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 29. Lesquerenx in Owen's 2d Rep. Arkansas, 389. Wood, Cl. 

 Book, 663 ; Bot. & Fl. 315. Henkol & Hochstetter, Nadelholz. 258. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 473. Hoopes, Evergreens, 364, f. 

 58. Parlatorc in De Candolle, Prodr. xvi 2 , 440. Lawson, Pinetum Brit. ii. 305, f. 1-9. Fowler in London Gard. Chronicle, 

 1872, 1526. Young, Bot. Texas, 518. Koch, Dendrologie, ii 2 ,195. Bertrand in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xviii, 127. Vasey, Cat. Forest 

 Trees, 36. Bruadhead in Coulter's Bot. Gazette, iii, 60. Veitch, Manual Conif. 214. Ridgway in Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus. 87. Watson 

 in Proc. Am. Acad. xviii, 158. 



Gupressus disticha, Liunsens, Spec. 1 ed. 1003. Du Roi,Harbk.i,201. Marshall, Arbu'stum, 39. Lamarck, Diet, ii, 244. 

 Wangeuheim, Amer. 43. Walter, Fl. Caroliniana, 238. Alton, Hort. Kew. iii, 372; 2 ed. v, 323. Bartram, Travels, 2 

 ed. 88. Michanx, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii,208. Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. ii, 567. Willdenow, Spec, it, 512; Enum. 991; Berl. 

 Baumz. 111. Schkuhr, Handb. iii, 288. Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. iii, 4, t. 1; N. American Sylva, 3 ed. iii, 154, t. 

 151. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 645. Barton, Prodr. Fl. Philadelph. 93. Rafinesque, Fl. Ludoviciana, 151. Nuttall, 

 Genera, ii, 224. Hayne.Dend. Fl. 178. James in Long's Exped. ii, 317, 318. Elliott, Sk. ii, 642. Beck, Bot. 238. 

 Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 116. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 215. De Chambray, Trait. Arb. Res. Conif. 349. Dickson & Brown 

 in Am. Jour. Sci. 2 ser. v, 15. Porcher, Resources S. Forests, 508. 



Cupressus disticha, var. patens and var. nutans, Alton, Hort. Kew. 2 ed. v, 323. 



CupreSSUS distwha, var. imbricaria, Nnttall, Genera, ii, 224 ; Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 2 ser. v, 163. Croom in Am. Jour. Sci. 

 1 ser. xxviii, 166. 



Schubertia disticha, Mirbel in Mem. Mus. xiii, 75. Sprengel, Syst. iii, 890. Spach, Hist. Veg. xi, 349. 



T. microphyllum, Brongniart in Ann. Sci. Nat. 1 ser. xxx, 182. Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 68. Lindley & Gordon in Jour. 

 Hort. Soc. London, v, 207. Carriere, Trait. Conif. 148. 



T. adscendens, Brongniart in Ann. Sci. Nat. 1 ser. xxx, 182. Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 69. Lindley & Gordon in Jour. Hort. 

 Soc. London, v, 207 Carriere, Trait. Conif. 148. 



T. distichum, var. patens and var. nutans, Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 68. Loudon, Arboretum, iv, 2481. 



T. distichum fastigiatum, Knight, Syn. Conif. 21. Carriere, Trait. Conif. 145; 2 ed. 181. Gordon, Piuetum, 307; 2 ed. 

 383. Houkel & Hochstetter, Nadelholz. 260. Hoopes^ Evergreens, 367. 



T. distichum, var. microphyllum, Heukel & Hochstetter, Nadelholz. 261. Parlatore in De Candolle, Prodr. xvi 2 , 441 (T. 

 Sineiise pendulum, Forbes, Pinetum Woburn. 180. Glyptoslrobus pcnduliw, Endlicher, Conif. 71. Bot. Mag. t. 5603. 

 Carriere, trait. Couif. 152. T. Sinense, Gordon, Pinetum, 309. Cvpresstis Sinenae, Hort.). 



Cuprespinnata disticha, Nelson, Pinaceie, 61. 



