Handbook of Trees of the Xort 



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XI) Canada. 4^ 



This is one of the most beautiful as well as 

 one of tlie most useful of the cone-bearing 

 trees of eastern America, lifting its spire- 

 shaped top to a height of 70 or 80 ft. and 

 having a trunk commonly 2 ft. and occasion- 

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

 reddish brown fibrous bark which exfoliates 

 lengthwise in thin strips, giving to old forest 

 trunks a decidedly shaggy appearance. It 

 occupies quite exclusively cold swamps in the 

 coast region, particularly of New England 

 soutli of iMassachusetts Bay, localities in New 

 Jersey, etc., where it forms dense forests. 

 Farther south it is oft<?n found associating 

 with the Bald Cypress, Swamp Bay, Tupelo 

 Gum, Holly, Sweet Gum, Pin Oak, Laurel Oak, 

 etc. 



Its wood, of which a cubic foot when abso- 

 lutely dry weighs 20.70 lbs., is very light, 

 durable and useful in the manufacture of pails, 

 woodenware and boat building and for rail- 

 way ties, posts, etc. 2 



Leaves on the ultiaiato branchos dark glaucous 

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

 ovate, acute, closely appressed, the lateral rows 

 keeled and the vertical convex, each having a dis- 

 coid gland, making flat branchlets, usually drying 

 and turning brown the second season and long "per- 

 sisting ; those on vigorous shoots about i/s in. long 

 and spreading at apex. FIdwitk: staminate with 5 

 or <i pairs of stamens having rounded conncitives : 

 pistillate subglobose with more acute ami spri'ud- 

 in°; scales and blackish ovules. C(.ii(s gldlmsi', 

 about i/i in. in diameter, very glaucous at uia 

 turity, with acute or rettexed bosses and each scale 

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

 and dark brown wings as broad as the body.^ 



1. Syn. Ciipressiis ihijoides L. 

 ^l/hacroiden Spach. 



Chawaecitlaris 



