WHITE CEDAR (Chamascyparis thyoides, Britt). 40 to 80 

 feet. Narrow, pyramidal tree with short branches, ending 

 in fan-like spray of 2-ranked, flat twigs, covered with the blue- 

 green foliage. Bark thin, reddish, shallowly fissured into 

 stringy ridges, often spirally twisted around the trunk. Wood 

 pale reddish-brown, soft, light, aromatic, close-grained, used 

 in boat-building, interior finish of houses, shingles, wooden 

 wares, cooperage, posts, ties. Leaves minute, paired, keeled 

 and pointed, or flat and blunt, appressed to cover twigs, and 

 form flat spray, as in arbor vitse. Flowers April; staminate 

 abundant, red or yellow, globular; pistillate few, greenish, 

 oblong, usually of 6 shield-shaped, fertile scales with 2 to 5 

 bottle-shaped ovules at the base of each. Fruit a cone, small, 

 spherical, of thickened, peltate scales, pea green, becoming 

 brown; seeds 1 to 2 under each scale, winged. Dist.: Swampy 

 land near coast; Atlantic and Gulf States, to Mississippi. 

 Planted as an ornamental tree, but not commonly. 



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