Handbook of Trees of the Noi;tiii-:i;\ S-j-a-i'ek and Canaha. 



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This is one of the most beautiful as well as 

 one of the most useful of the cone-bearing 

 trees of eastern America, lifting its spire- 

 shaped top to a height of 70 or 80 ft. and 

 liaving a trunk commonly 2 ft. and occasion- 

 ally 3 or 4 ft. in diameter. This is vested in a 

 reddish brown librous bark wliicb exfoliates 

 lcn,i^1lj\\is<' in thin strips, giving to old forest 

 trunks a decidedly shaggy appearance. it 

 occupies ([uite exclusi\ely cold swamps in tlie 

 coast region, particularly of New Engl an, 1 

 south of Massachusetts Bay, localities in New 

 Jersey, etc., where it f(u-]ns dense forest-;. 

 Farther soutli it is often found associating 

 with the Bald Cypress, Swamp Bay, Tupelo 

 (inm, Holly, Sweet (_ium, Pin Oak, Laurel t)ak, 

 etc. 



Its wood, of which a cubic foot when abso- 

 lutely dry weighs 20.70 lbs., is ver}' light, 

 durable and useful in the manufacture of pails, 

 woodenware and boat building and for rail- 

 way ties, posts, etc- 



Lcarfs on tlio ullimatp branches dark f^laucons 

 Krccn. ul)out imt'-sixtrcnth in. Inn.i;. 1 i-ian^iil Mr- 

 ovate, acute, closely a[»pr('ssod, tlio talcral rows 

 kr-eled and the-' \'<'L'tical convex, eaf.-li havin^j,- a dis- 

 coid j^Iand, makiag tlal" hranchlots. usually di'yjn;.j 

 and turning brown the second season and long per- 

 sisting: ; thosp on visoi-ons slmols about Vs in. loni; 

 and spreading at apex. I'l"ir>'rs: slaminate with '< 

 or H pairs of wlampns having rounded conneclivcs; 

 pi.stillate subglobose wilh more ncnte and s|u-ead- 

 ing scales and Macklsh ovnies. <'ini<\s gloliosi', 

 about Vt in- in diameter-, very glaucous at ma- 

 turity, with acute oi' retlexed bosses and each scale 

 bearing 1 or li gray-brown seeds about l^ in. long 

 and dark brown wings as liioad as the body.'* 



1. Syn. Cuprrssii.'^ Ilii/oidcs L. 

 siih fir ro idea Spach, 



•^. A. W.. HI, 74. 



.'!. Fov genus see p. 4'22 



Ghamaecylaris 



