Handbook of Tkees of the XoETiiEiix States and Canada. 43 



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 

 having a trunk commonly 2 ft. and occasion- 

 all}' 3 or 4 ft. in diameter. This is vested in a 

 reddish brown fibrous bark which exfoliates 

 lengthwise in thin strips, giving to old forest 

 trunks a decidedly shaggy appearance. It 

 occupies quite exclusively cold swamps in the 

 coast region, particularly of New England 

 south of Massachusetts Bay, localities in New 

 Jersey, etc., where it forms dense forest;. 

 Farther south it is often found associating 

 with the Bald Cypress, Swamp Bay, Tupelo 

 Gum, Holly, Sweet Gum, Pin Oak, Laurel Oak, 

 etc. 



Its wood, of which a cubic foot when abso- 

 lutely dry weighs 20.70 lbs., is very light, 

 durable and useful in the manufacture of pails, 

 woodenware and boat building and for rail- 

 way ties, posts, etc.2 



Leaves on the ultimate branches dark glaucous 

 green, about one-sixteenth in. long, triangular- 

 ovate, acute, closely appressed, the lateral rows 

 keeled and the vertical convex, each having a dis- 

 coid gland, making flat branchlets, usually drying 

 and turning brown the second season and long per- 

 sisting ; those on vigorous shoots about Vs in. long 

 and spreading at apex. Flowers: staminate with r> 

 or H pairs of stamens having rounded connectives ; 

 pistillate subglobose with more acute and spread- 

 ing scales and blackish ovules. Cones globose, 

 about 14 in. in diameter, very glaucous at ma- 

 turity, with acute or reflexed bosses and each scale 

 bearing 1 or 2 gray-brown seeds about % in. long 

 and dark brown wings as broad as the body.^ 



1. Syn. Ciipressus tliyoides L. Chamaecylaria 

 s/jhaerotdea Spach. 



2. A. AT., in, 74. 



'i. For genus see p. 42*2. 



