178 Trees with Simple Leaves. [ci 



Genus CHAM^ECYPARIS, Spach. (White Cedar.) 



Fig. 92. White Cedar. C. thydides (L.), B. S. P. C. spharoidea, Spach. 



Leaves, SIMPLE ; INDETERMINATE in position because of 

 their smallness and closeness. They are scale-like, 

 somewhat egg-shape, overlapping each other, and 

 closely pressed in four rows up and down the very 

 flat branchlets. Each leaf has at its centre a raised 

 gland, easily distinguished if held between the eye 

 and the light. 



Bark, fibrous. The " spray" (formed from the flat branch- 

 lets) is itself flat and very delicate and of a dull green. 



Cones, about one fourth of an inch in diameter, round. 

 variously placed, compact, purplish as they ripen ; 

 opening when ripe toward the centre line (i. e., not 

 toward its base). Scales, fleshy, shield-shaped and 

 apparently fastened near their centres, with the edge 

 several-pointed, and with a sharp point or knob in the 

 centre. Seeds, usually four to eight under each scale, 

 oval, with wide wings at the sides. 



Found, in deep, cold swamps (filling them densely and 

 exclusively), from Southern Maine along the coast 

 to Florida, and along the Gulf coast to Mississippi. 



A tapering evergreen tree, thirty to seventy feet high, 

 with light and durable wood, largely used in boat-building, 

 for wooden-ware, shingles, etc. 



