48 TREES OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATES 
Buds show in the axils of only a few of the leaves, and 
are very small; but there are several supernumerary buds 
around many of the clusters of the shoots of the year. 
Sap clear and slightly sticky with resin. 
Flowers looked for, but not seen; 
must have been small, or have 
bloomed before my examination in 
the spring. 
Fruit one inch in diameter, cone 
globular, brown in the autumn; 
did not notice it before; fifteen 
six-sided scales, two seeds under 
each, still hanging on, though the 
leaves have dropped; only to pro- 
duce seeds, I think. 
The wood I do not know about. 
Remarks. Around the base, at some distance from the 
trunk, there are four peculiar knobs, seemingly coming 
from the roots, one being nearly a foot high and nine 
inches through. 
No. 2. 
The Bald Cypress standing near a small ditch in Atter- 
bury’s meadow is a very beautiful, tall, conical tree, over 
80 feet high, with an excurrent trank which j is very large 
and ridged near the ground. It tapers rapidly upward, so 
that the circumference is only about half as great at the 
height of 6 feet, where the branches begin. The branches 
are very numerous and, considering the size of the trunk, 
very small; the largest of them being only about 2 inches 
through. They all slope upward rapidly, but the tip and 
fine spray show a tendency to droop; the fine thread-like 
branchlets, bearing the leaves of the year, are almost all 
pendulous. 
The bark is very rough, thick and soft, as I found in 
pinning on the bit of paper to measure the height of the 
tree, when I could easily press the pin in to its head. 
