few years; leaves apjiarently 2-i-anked, persisting for about three years, 

 lineal-, shoi't potioled, 6-13 mm. long, usual]}' about 10 mm. long, 

 usuall>' flat, obtuse or notched at apex, bright green and shiny above, 

 bluish-white beneath; staminate flowers ajipear early in the sjiring 

 from buds in the axils of the leaves of the previous season, the pistillate 

 terminal, erect, oblong; cones almost sessile and pendulous, boine on 

 the end of last year's branch, maturing the first season, ovoid, 1.5-2. .5 

 cm. long; wood light, soft, brittle, not durable, difficult to work, 

 splintery but holds a nail well. 



Distribution. — Nova Scotia south to Delaware, west to Minnesota 

 and southeastward through Indiana and eastern Kentucky, thence 

 southward on the mountains to northern Alabama. In Indiana it is 

 not found' north of Blown County. It is found in limited numbers at 

 the following places; on a bluff of Bean Blo.ssom C'reek m Brown 

 County ; on a steep wooded slope on the south side of a small creek about 

 one and a half miles north of Borden in Clark County, and also reported 

 on the liank of Silver Creek between Clark and Floj'd Counties; a few 

 trees on the top and sides of the cliffs about one mile east of Taswell in 

 Crawford County; a few trees on the bluff of Guthrie Creek in Jackson 

 County; a few trees along the north fork of the Muscatatuck River 

 between ^'crnon and North ^'crnon in Jennings County; a few trees 

 on the south bank of Back Creek near Leesville in Lawrence Count j'; 

 frecjuent on the banks of Sugar Creek near the "Shades" in Mont- 

 gomery (V)unt>'; a few trees on the bank of Kaccoon Creek in the 

 southern part of (Jwen Countj-; frequent on the bank of Sugar Creek in 

 Turkey Hun State Park in Parke County; a few trees on the banks of 

 Raccoon and Walnut Creeks in Putnam County. Also reported by 

 Beeler- as found on a bluff of White River in Morgan County. 



In all of its stations it is found on sandstone bluffs on the south side 

 (if streams, giving it a north or northwest exposure. In a few of the 

 stations there are no small trees, but in Montgomery County along Sugar 

 Creek it is reproducing well. 



Remark.s. — Hemlock is of no economic importance in Indiana. 

 The l;)ark is much used in tanning. Hemlock is freciuently used for a 

 hedge plant, also as a speiimeii tree in parks, etc. 



I. TAXODIUM. l^HE Bald Cypre.ss. 



Taxodiiini dlstiehiini (Liniucus) L. C. Richard. Cypress. Plate 

 7. Large tall straight ti-ees, up to 18 dm. in diameter and 4.5 m. high, 

 usually with a buttressed base which is frecjuently hollow. In wet 

 situations it develops steeple-shaped projections from the roots to 



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