LARGER NORTH CAROLINA FOREST TREES. 19 



(2) LEAVES FLATTENED, RARELY 1 INCH LONG, SCATTERED SINGLY ALONG 

 THE TWIG ; FRUIT NOT A BERRY. 



(a) Large and common trees of eastern swamps ; 

 not evergreen ; the end of the twig falling 

 off in the autumn. 



Leaves spreading in two rows, one on either 



side of the twig. (p. 122.) Cypress. 



Leaves, appressed to the twig, in many rows 

 on all sides of it ; smaller tree than the 



above, growing in pine barren ponds Pond Cypress 1 . 



(6) Trees of the mountains ; evergreen. 



Fruit a, small burr or cone, about 1 inch 

 long or less. 



Leaves white beneath, in two rows, one 



on either side of the twig; growing 



along mountain streams, (p. 134.): Hemlock. 



Leaves scattered on all sides of the twig ; . 



scales of the cone larger than the last 



and spreading ; rare trees, chiefly along 



the Blue Ridge, (p. 135.) Carolina Hemlock. 



Fruit a larger, cylindrical cone, 2 to 4 inches 

 long ; trees of high mountains. 



Leaves green, nearly round, scattered on 



all sides of the twig. (p. 133.) Black Spruce. 



Leaves in one row on either side of the 



twig, white beneath ; trees with white, 



smooth bark, found on the highest 



mountains, (p. 136.) Carolina Fir or Balsam. 



(3) LEAVES SHORT, SCALK-LIKE, LESS THAN J-INCH LONG ; TWIGS OF THE 



year green.— Cedars. 



Spray, that is a bunch of twigs, flattened ; fruit a (Juniper. 



small cone ; trees of eastern swamps, (p. 119.) White Cedar or 



Twigs round ; fruit a small, blue berry ; (often 

 bearing large, hard, brown excrescences on 

 twigs); dry soil. (p. 121.) Red Cedar. 



Twigs, as well as the spray (bundh of twigs) flat- 

 tened ; fruit a small cone ; rocky slopes of the 

 Blue Ridge, also extensively cultivated, (p. 119.) Arborvitae. 



II. BROAD-LEAF TREES; TREES WITH LIMBS; LEAVES FROM 

 i OF AN INCH TO 10 INCHES BROAD, CHIEFLY DECIDUOUS. 



(1) LEAVES COMPOUND AND PLACED ALTERNATELY ALONG THE TWIG. 



(a) Leaflets placed alternately along the common 



leafstem, 7 to 11 in number ; flowers white ; 



fruit a dry pod ; S. W. mountains ; rare. (p. 56) Yellowwood. 



{&) Stout thorns at the base of each leafstem and 



each leaflet ; leaflets dotted with translucent 



dots ; bark warty and thorny ; sandy sea 



coast Prickly Ash 2 . 



iTaxodium disticnum Imbrlcirla (.Vuttall) Astie, Haudbojk of North Carolina, p. 43 

 (1896). 



2 Xanthoxylum carollnlanum, Lam. 



