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ECOXUMIC BOTAXY OF ALABAMA 



Fig. 15. Scattered trees of Taxodium asccndcns, with a few slash 

 pines, in savanna about seven miles west of Lillian, Baldwin County. 

 Photograph by Dr. E. A. Smith and R. S. Hodges, August 13, 1902. 



])h()ne poles and crossties. In Washington, D. C, I have seen one 

 of the large hollow leases with a few feet of the trunk inverted and 

 used for a flower urn in a yard (and it lasted at least twenty years, 

 and may be there yet). This species, like the other, is occasionally 

 planted in parks and along streets in the North and in Europe, and 

 it is or has been known to the horticultural trade as "Glyptostrohus 

 pcudulus," and erroneously considered a native of China or Japan. 



References: Harper 1, 2, 13. 



This species grows in shallow ponds, and swamps of branches 

 and creeks which are seldom or never muddy and do not fluctuate 

 more than two or three feet. Fire sometimes sweeps through such 

 places in dry seasons, btit does little harm to the cypress, on ac- 

 count of its thick bark. Its range is much more restricted than 

 that of T. disticJiuiu (see map), and it seems to be confined to 

 regions where late summer is the wettest season. Its known dis- 

 tribtition l)v regions is as follows: 



