Chamaecyparis thyoides in Orange County, New York 
W. C. MUENSCHER 
Two recent notes on the distribution of southern White 
Cedar, Chamaecyparis thyoides (L.) Britt., in New Hampshire! 
and New Jersey? recall to mind an inland station for this species 
in New York which is of interest on account of its elevation and 
remoteness from the coast. 
In June, 1924, while botanizing on the hills north of Port 
Jervis, the writer, Dr. C. L. Wilson and Dr. A. S. Foster ob- 
served Chamaecyparis in two swamps of the region. 
According to a local woodsman “cedar” was growing in the 
“swamps up in the hills.” After considerable exploring the first 
“cedar” was found in a small swamp, locally known as “Little 
Cedar Swamp.” Only a few, nearly dead, trees of Chamaecy- 
paris were found. About one-half mile southeast of this swamp, 
Chamaecyparis was found in another swamp locally known as 
“Long Swamp.” This swamp, which is about one mile long and 
one-fourth mile wide, contained many large Chamaecyparis 
trees. In some localities these trees formed almost pure stands. 
In other places they were intermingled with Picea mariana 
(Mill.) BSP. and Larix laricina (DuRoi) Koch. Rhododendron 
maximum L. was a common undershrub. Many of the Chamaecy- 
paris trees were between one and two feet in diameter. Along the 
eastern end of the swamp where the cedar had been out recently 
the ground cover contained many Chamaecyparis seedlings. 
“Long Swamp,” as indicated (without name) on the United 
States Geological Survey map (Port Jervis Quadrangle), is lo- 
cated about one mile south of Big Pond. This Chamaecyparis 
Station occurs at an elevation of 1,340 feet above sea level about 
‘ix miles north of Port Jervis, New York, and ten miles north 
of the Chamaecyparis station in Cedar Swamp, High Point State 
Park, Sussex County, New Jersey. The “Long Swamp” station 
extends the range of Chamaecyparis thyoides about ten miles 
farther inland than the High Point station, which occurs about 
seventy miles from the coast at an elevation of 1,650 feet. 
CORNELL Untversity, Ituaca, New YORK 
31: : "eerie K. Chamaecyparis thyoides in New Hampshire. Rhodora 
13 Torrey, R. H. Stations for the southern white cedar. Torreya 30: 134- 
5, 1930. 
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