232 CONIFERS. Finds. 



♦ ♦♦* LiKix, Tourn. Sterile aments bud-like, scattered over the branches. Cells af the anthers opening longitudinally. 

 Cones roundish or ovoid-conical, erect. Bracts (colored) and scales persistent. Leaves annual, linear, slender, 

 fasciculate and divcrgbig, produced from globose buds. 



9. PiNUs PENDULA, Ait. Taiixarack. American Larch. 



Leaves fascicled, deciduous, short ; cones ovoid-roundish, consisting of few nearly orbicular 

 thin scales ; bracts broadly ovate. — Ait. Kew. (ed, 1)3. p. 369 ; Lamb. Pin. t. 49 ; Pursh, 

 fl. 2. p. 645 ; Beck, hot. p. 339 ; Hook. Jl. Bor.-Am. 2. p. 164. F. microcarpa. Lamb. I. 

 c. t. 50 ; Pursh, I. c. ; Bigel. jl. Bast. p. 360 ; Hook. I. c. Lari.^ Americana, Michx. fl. 

 2. p. 203 ; Michx. f. sylv. 2. t. 153 ; Audub. birds of Amer. t. 4 ; Loud. enc. tr. ^- shr. 

 p. 1056. 



A tall straight tree (50 - 80 feet or more in height and 1-3 feet in diameter), with 

 smooth bark and horizontal branches. Leaves soft and flexible, growing in numerous tufts 

 which are scattered along the sides of the branches. Aments yellow or reddish ; the sterile 

 small, oblong. Cones about half an inch long, green or violet-colored when young, brownish 

 when old. Scales about 20, loosely imbricated, somewhat woody, flattish, entire. Bracts 

 less than half the length of the scale, usually emarginate, with a short straight mucro. 



Swamps : abundant in the northern counties, and some parts of western New-York, as 

 between Utica and Syracuse. Fl. May. The wood is strong and durable, but is very heavy. 

 It is chiefly employed in ship-building. Many European botanists consider P. pendula and 

 P. microcarpa as distinct species, but they seem to be mere varieties, caused by difierences 

 of soil and exposure. 



Suborder II. CUPRESSIN^E. L. C. Rich. The Cypress Tribe. 



Aments monoecious or dioecious, imbricated, without bracts, few -flowered. 

 Anthers with 4 - 12 cells ; the connective peltate, or attached at the base. 

 Ovules 1 - 2 or more, at the base of the carpellary scales, erect. Cones 

 indurated, or the scales concreted and fleshy. Integument of the seed bony 

 or membranous. — Leaves mostly evergreen. 



2. CUPRESSUS. Tourn.; Endl. gen. 1791. CYPRESS. 



[From the Island of Cyprus, where one species of the tree is abundant.] 



Sterile aments solitary. Anthers 2-4 celled. Fertile aments subglobose, with peltate 

 scales. Ovules 8 or more, bottle-shaped. Cones globose ; the scales ligneous, protuberant 



