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known as ''knees"; bark gray or reddisli-brown, long fibrous strips 

 separating from the trunk; branches horizontal or rooping; leaves 

 spirally arranged, appearing as if 2-ranked, 1-2 cm. (5^-Ji inch) 



Plate 12. 



TAXODIUM DISTICHUM (Liumeus) Richard. Cypress, (xl.) 



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, 



