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known as “knees”; bark gray or reddish-brown, long fibrous strips 
separating from the trunk; branches horizontal or rcoping; leaves 
spirally arranged, appearing as if 2-ranked, 1-2 cm. (8%-34 inch) 
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TAXODIUM DISTICHUM (Linnzeus) Richard. Cypress. (x 1.) 
long, acute, yellowish-green, turning brown in the fall and drop- 
ping off; staminate flowers numerous, borne on long terminal droop- 
ing panicles, pistillate in small terminal clusters near the ends of the 
twigs of the previous season; fruit a woody cone, usually in pairs, 
