14 PlNACEAE 



CHAMAECYPARIS. White Cedar. 



Evergreen shrubs or trees with ductless' pale or brownish 

 soft wood without resin-passages; opposite crowded very small 

 leaves spreading or in maturity closely appressed on rather in- 

 definitely fan-shaped finally deciduous foliage-sprays; no stip- 

 ule-scars; monoecious catkin- or cone-like naked flowers; and 

 small subglobose cones with 2 or 3 wingless seeds under each 

 thick-tipped scale. 



1. Leaves closely appressed. 2. 



Leaves spreading. ("Retinispora"). 5. 



2. Leaves white-lined beneath, somewhat flattened. 3. 

 Leaves without white lines. 4. 



3. Green. C. pisifera. 

 Yellow. C. pisifera aurea. 



4. Green. (White cedar). C. thyoides. 

 Glaucous. C. thyoides glauca. 

 Partly yellow. C. thyoides variegata. 



5. Branchlets long and slender. C. pisifera filifera. 

 Branchlets not elongated. 6. 



6. Dense and heath-like. C. thyoides ericoides. 

 Not heath-like. 7. 



7. Leaves short, little spreading. 8. 



Leaves widely spreading. C. pisifera squarrosa. 



8. Green, white beneath. C. pisifera plumosa. 

 White-tipped. C. pisifera plumosa argentea. 

 Yellow, when young. C. pisifera plumosa aurea. 



JUNIPERUS. Juniper. Savin. Red Cedar. 

 Evergreen shrubs or trees with brown or red ductless 

 wood without resin-passages; slender twigs ultimately falling 

 with their small scale- or dagger-like opposite or whorled 

 leaves, in some species spreading on young or abnormal 

 growth and closely appressed on characteristic plants; small 

 usually cone- or catkin-like monoecious naked flowers; and 

 small drupe- or berry-like few-seeded fruit. 

 1. Leaves in whorls of three. (Juniper). 2. 

 Leaves opposite. 3. 



