CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 183 



RED CEDAR. SAVIN. 



Southern New Bruuswick to the northeru shores of Georgian bay, uortbern 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 hundi'edth 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 North American Coniferae, a tree 24 to 30 meters in height, with a trunk 0.60 

 to 1.35 meter in diameter, or toward its northeru 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 

 northeru Montana, borders of streams and lakes; common; andreaching its greatest development in the valley of 

 the Ecd river, Texas. 



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

 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 savine cerete, and an infusion of the berries 

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



340. Taxodium distichum, Richard, 



Ann. Mus. xvi, 298; Conif. 52, t. 10. Nouveau DuLamel, iii, 8. Robin, Voyages, iii, 525. Lambert, Piuus, 2 ed. 25 & t. Torrey, 

 Compend. FI. N. States, 361 ; Bot. Mex. Boundary Survey, 210. Brongniart in Ann. Sci. Nat. 1 ser. xxx, 182. Loudon, Arboretum, 

 iv, 2481, f. 2335-2339. Forbes, Pinetum Woburn. 177, t. 60.- Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 68, iu part. Engelmaun & Gray in ,Jour. Boston 

 Soc. Nat. Hist, v, 234. Scheelo in Eoeiuer, Texas, Appx. 447. Lindley & Gordon in Jour. Hort. Soc. London, v, 209. Knigbt, Syn. 

 Conif. 20. Darlington, Fl. Cestrica, 3 ed. 295. Carrifere, Trait. Conif. 143; 2ed. 180 ; Rev. Hort. viii, 62& f. Morreu in Bolg. Hort. vi, 

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

 S. States, 435.^Curtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, I860, iii, 29. Lesquereux in Owen's 2d Rep. Arkansas, 389. Wood, CI. 

 Book, 603; Bot. & Fl. 315. Henkel & Hochstetter, Nadelholz. 258. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 cd. 473, Hoopes, Evergreens, 364, f. 

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

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

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

 in Proc. Am. Acad, xviii, 158. 



Cvpressus disticha, Linna:us, Spec. 1 ed. 1003. Dn Roi, Harbk.i, 201. Marshall, Arbustnm, 39. Lamarck, Diet, ii, 244. 

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

 ed.88. Michanx,FI. Bor.-Am. ii,208. Desfoutaines, Hist. Arb. ii, 567. Willdenow, Spec. iv,512; Eunm. 991; Berl. 

 Baumz. 111. Schkuhr, Handb. iii, 288. Micbanx 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. FI. 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 Cbambray, Trait. Arb. Res. Conif. 349. Dickson & Brown 

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



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



CupreSSUS disticha, var. imbricaria, Nuttall, Genera, ii, 224; Traus.Am.Phil.Soc.2 ser.v, 163. Croom in Am. Jour. Sci. 

 1 ser. xxviii, 166. 



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



T. microphyllum, Brongniart iu Ann. Sci. Nat. 1 ser. xxx, 182. Endlicher, Syn. Couif. 68. Lindley it Gordon iu Jour. 

 Hort. Soc. London, V, 207. Carrifere, Trait. Couif. 148. 



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

 Soc. London, V, 207. Garriere, Trait. Conif. 148. 



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



T. distichum fustigiatum. Knight, Syn. Conif. 21. Carrifere, Trait. Conif. 145; 2 ed. 181. Gordon, Pinetum, 307; 2 ed. 

 383. Honkel & Hochstetter, Nadelbiilz. 260. Hoopes, Evergreens, 367. 



r. distichum, var. microphyllum, Henkel & Hochstetter, Nadelholz. 261. Parlatore in Do Candolle, Prodr. xvi', 441 (T. 

 Sinenae pendulum, Forlies, Pinetum Woburu. 180. Glyptoslrobus jycndulun, Endlicher, Conif. 71. Bot. Mag. t. 6603. 

 Carrifrre, trait. Couif. l.'JS. T. Sinense, Gordon, Piuetum, 309. Ctqireseus Sinenee, Hort.). 



Cupresptnnata disticna, kelson, ymaeesa.ai. 



