PINE FAMILY. 341 
Stem 30-80 fect high, and 1-2 feet in diameter, sparingly branched. Leaves evergreen, 
very Small and crowded, 4 appressed to the branches. Strobiles one third to half an inch 
in diameter. 
Swamps and pine forests : New England to Georgia. Fi. April-May. Fr. September 
etrable dark ‘ 
soft, and very durable. Shingles were formerly made, to a considerable 
extent, from the larger trees: but these are now chiefly wrought into 
) 
—and no description of territory, in some 
half the price that can be obtained for good Cedar swamp. 
6. TAXO’DIUM, Richard. Batp Cypress. 
(Taxus, the yew, and eidos, form ; the foliage having the habit of that plant.] 
Flowers moncecious, on the same branches. STaMINATE AMENTS DUMe- 
beari —5a ell. $ roundish-obovoid, 
pairs at the base of the staminate spike ; scales num te on 
the axis, imbricated, acute, recurved-spreading at a at the 
base ch scale, sessile, erect, perforate at summit. bose, 
formed of angular subpeltate woody scales embryo in 
sO OF, Seay nty albumen ; cotyledons 
LT. dis’tichum, Rich. Leaves flat, pinnately anaes on short slen- 
der Pe branches which resemble commo 
Disricnous Taxoprum. Cypress. Bald Cypress. 
A scale from a staminate ament of Cypress (Cupressus), the anthers at : 
its ase * arioaraninyansn ome Somers ao So ae 
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