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youth, with full crowns of limbs, and seldom a hollow 

 heart or decrepit trunk. 



CRYPTOMERIA JAPONICA. 



A tree much in cultivation in California, and nearly 

 related to the Redwoods, is Cryptomeria Japonica, or Ja- 

 pan Sacred Cypress; so close is the resemblance to a 

 young Sequoia that it is often mistaken for our "Big 

 Tree," having the same general appearance, the swell of 

 the trunk near the base, and finely divided branches; but 

 the trees come to fruit-bearing when young, with large 

 quantities of small, globose cones, clothed with free, subu- 

 late scales, and the leaves are awl-shaped and succulent, 

 like those of the Norfolk Island Pine. 



Class B.-DENUD/E 

 BALD TAXODIADS. 



Trees with small, tender, deciduous leaves; cones em- 

 bossed or reticulated. Two Genera, neither in Western 

 America. Glyptostrobus, the Embossed Cedar, with 

 beautifully sculptured cones, is a native of South China. 



Taxodium (largely present in early ages) is represented 

 by one species in the Southern States, and a second in 

 Mexico. This is the celebrated ''Bald Cypress," of the 

 Southern swamps, and is particularly noted for its 

 " knees" conical bodies rising from its roots, to a height 

 of 2 to 4 feet. 



