2 TREES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



CUPRESSACEJE. 

 THUJA. CUPRESSUS. JUNIPERUS. 



Leaf-buds not scaly ; leaves evergreen and persistent for 

 several years, opposite, verticillate, or sometimes scattered, 

 scale-like, often needle-shaped in seedlings and sometimes 

 upon the branches of older plants; flowers minute; stamens 

 and pistils in separate blossoms upon the same plant or 

 upon different plants ; stamens usually bearing 3-5 pollen- 

 sacs on the underside ; scales of fertile aments few, oppo- 

 site or ternate ; fruit small cones, or berries formed by 

 coalescence of the fleshy cone-scales ; otherwise as in 

 Abietacece. 



Larix Americana, Michx. 



Larix laricina, Koch. 

 TAMARACK. HACMATACK. LARCH. JUNIPER. 



Habitat and Range. Low lands, shaded hillsides, borders 

 of ponds ; in New England preferring cold swamps ; some- 

 times far up mountain slopes. 



Labrador, Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia, west to the Rocky 

 mountains ; from the Rockies through British Columbia, northward 

 along the Yukon and Mackenzie systems, to the limit of tree growth 

 beyond the Arctic circle. 



Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, abundant, filling 

 swamps acres in extent, alone or associated with other trees, 

 mostly black spruce ; growing depressed and scattered on 

 Katahdin at an altitude of 4000 feet ; Massachusetts, 

 rather common, at least northward ; Rhode Island, not 

 reported ; Connecticut, occasional in the northern half of 

 the state ; reported as far south as Danbury (Fairfield 

 county). 



South along the mountains to New Jersey and Pennsylvania; 

 west to Minnesota. 



