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‘attain the size of a small tree. The berries are used 
for medicinal purposes, and are employed in flavoring 
gin. The Swedish and Irish Junipers, well known 
in ornamental cultivation, are varieties of this species. 
They are propagated principally by cuttings, rooted 
by means of bottom-heat. The young shoots of both 
are sometimes injured in severe winters, when they 
have not made a well ripened growth. 
TAXODIUM. 
Flowers, moncecious on the same branch; sterile 
catkins, spiked-panicled, of few stamens; filaments 
scale-like, bearing from two to five anther cells; fertile 
catking, ovoid, clustered, scaly, with two ovules at the 
base of each scale; cones, globular, with angular, 
woody, thick shield-shaped scales ; leaves, two-ranked, 
linear, deciduous; cotyledons, six to nine. 
Taxodium distichum—Deciduous Cypress. 
Leaflets, short, one-half to one inch long, linear, 
spreading, awl-shaped and imbricated on flowering 
branchlets; branchlets often drooping. 
The Deciduous Cypress belongs more particularly 
to the Southern States, but is found within the limits 
assigned to this work. In Delaware, Maryland and 
Virginia it grows near the sea coast; and also in 
Kentucky, Southern Illinois and Missouri, near the 
Mississippi river. It formerly existed in considerable 
quantity near Cape Girardeau, in Missouri, but near 
its northern natural limit it does not reach the size to 
which it attains further south. In the vicinity of 
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