CUPRESSUS THYOIDES, L. 25 



Cupressus thyoides, L. 



CkamcKcyparis xphceroidea, Spach. Chamcecyparis thyoides, B. S. P. 



WHITE CEDAR. CEDAR. 



Habitat and Range. In deep swamps and marshes, which it 

 often fills to the exclusion of other trees, mostly near the 

 seacoast. 



Cape Breton island and near Halifax, Nova Scotia, perhaps 

 introduced in both. 



Maine, reported from the southern part of York county ; 

 New Hampshire, limited to Rockingham county near the 

 coast ; Vermont, no station known ; Massachusetts, occa- 

 sional in central and eastern sections, very common in the 

 southeast ; Rhode Island, common ; Connecticut, occa- 

 sional in peat swamps. 



Southward, coast region to Florida and west to Mississippi. 



Habit. 20-50 feet high and 1-2 feet in diameter at the 

 ground, reaching in the southern states an altitude of 90 and a 

 diameter of 4 feet ; trunk straight, tapering slowly, throwing 

 out nearly horizontal, slender branches, forming a narrow, 

 conical head often of great elegance and lightness ; foliage 

 light brownish-green ; strong-scented ; spray flat in planes 

 disposed at different angles ; wood permanently aromatic. 



Bark. Bark of trunk thick, reddish, fibrous, shreddy, 

 separating into thin scales, becoming more or less furrowed in 

 old trees ; branches reddish-brown ; fine scaled ; branches after 

 fall of leaves, in the third or fourth year, smooth, purplish- 

 brown ; season's shoots at first greenish. 



Winter Buds and Leaves. Leaf -buds naked, minute. Leaves 

 mostly opposite, 4-ranked, adherent to the branchlet and com- 

 pletely covering it ; keeled in the side pairs and slightly 

 convex in the others, dull green, pointed at apex or trian- 

 gular awl -shaped, mostly with a minute roundish gland upon 

 the back. 



Inflorescence. April. Flowers terminal, sterile and fertile, 



