112 CONIFER.E. Taxodium. 



340. Taxodium distiehum, Rich. 



Bald Cypress. Black Cypress. Red Cypress. White Cypress. 

 Deciduous Cypress. 



Southern Delaware, south near the coast to Mosquito Inlet and Cape 

 Romano, Florida, west through the Gulf States to the valley of the Nueces 

 River, Texas, and through Arkansas to western Tennessee, western and 

 northern Kentucky, southeastern Missouri, and southern Illinois and 

 Indiana. 



A large tree, 24 to 46 metres in height, with a trunk 1.80 to 4 metres 

 in diameter; deep, submerged swamps, river bottom-lands, and pine-barren 

 ponds ; common and occupying extensive tracts in the South Atlantic and 

 Gulf States in the neighborhood of the coast. 



Wood light, soft, close, straight-grained, not strong, compact, easily 

 worked, very durable in contact with the soil ; bands of small summer 

 cells broad, resinous, conspicuous ; medullary rays numerous, very obscure ; 

 color light or dark brown, the sap-wood nearly white ; largely manufac- 

 tured into lumber and used for construction, cooperage, railway-ties, posts, 

 fencing, etc., often injured, especially west of the Mississippi River, by a 

 species of Dadalia, rendering it unfit for lumber. 



Two varieties of cypress, black and white, are recognized by lumber- 

 men, the wood of the former heavier than water when green, rather harder 

 and considered more durable than the other ; the unseasoned wood of the 

 latter lighter than water, and rather lighter colored than black cypress. 



341. Sequoia gigantea, Decsn. 

 Big Tree. 



California. — western slopes of the Sierra Nevada from Placer County 

 (Calaveras Grove) south to the southern borders of Tulare County. 



A tree 76 to 119 metres in height, with a trunk 6 to 1 1 metres in 

 diameter; valleys and moist swales or hollows between 4, dim and 6.01111 

 feet elevation, growing in small, isolated groves, except toward its south- 

 ern limits, here mixed with the sugar pine and red and white firs, occu- 

 pying areas often several hundred acres in extent. 



Wood very light, soft, weak, brittle, rather coarse-grained, compact, 

 remarkably durable in contact with the soil ; bands of small summer cells 

 thin, dark-colored, conspicuous; medullary rays numerous, thin; color 

 bright clear red, turning much darker with exposure, the thin sap-wood 

 white ; formerly somewhat manufactured into lumber, and locally used for 

 fencing, shingles, construction, etc. 



342. Sequoia sempervirens, Endl. 



Redwood. 



California, — from the northern boundary of the State, south in the 

 Coast Ranges to the southern border of Monterey County. 



