343 PEACTICAL FOBBSTET. 



C. thnjoides, Linn. — ^White Cedar. — ^Leaves very small, ovate, 

 regularly imbricated in four rows, and of a light glaucous-green 

 color. Branches spreading and drooping. Cones very small 

 and clustered. Seeds few, very small, and nearly round. A 

 large tree, forty to eighty feet high, and stem two to three feet 

 in diameter, usually very straight. Wood reddish, light, soft, 

 but fine-grained, and very durable. Used for a great variety of 

 purposes, and always in demand. This tree is always found in 



Fig. 51 . — TWISTED BKANCHED C7PEES3. 



cold, wet lands or swamps, and widely distributed from New 

 England to Florida, and westward to Wisconsin. This species 

 was made the type of the new genus as given above by Spach, 

 but I certainly agree -with Mr. Hoopes when he says in regard 

 to this matter, that our ' 'American botanists, however, w^ho have 

 known it from childhood, and whose facilities for close inves- 

 tigation are amply sufficient, refuse to accept the innovation, and 

 consequently retain it in Cupressus." 



