48 TREES OP THE NORTHERN UNITED STATES 



Buds show in the axils of only a few of the leaves, and 

 are very small j but there are several supernumerary buds 

 around many of the clusters of the shoots of the year. 

 Sap clear and slightly sticky with resin. 



Flowers looked for, but not seen ; 

 must have been small, or have 

 bloomed before my examination in 

 the spring. 



Fruit one inch in diameter, cone 

 globular, brown in the autumn ; 

 did not notice it before ; fifteen 

 six-sided scales, two seeds under 

 each, still hanging on, though the 

 ' ^%Jp^ leaves have dropped j only to pro- 



r "*' duce seeds, I think. 



The wood I do not know about. 



Remarks. Around the base, at some distance from the 

 trunk, there are four peculiar knobs, seemingly coming 

 from the roots, one being nearly a foot high and nine 

 inches through. 



No. 2, 



The Bald Cypress standing near a small ditch in Atter- 

 bury's meadow is a very beautiful, tall, conical tree, over 

 80 feet high, with an excurrent trunk which is very large 

 and ridged near the ground. It tapers rapidly upward, so 

 that the circumference is only about half as great at the 

 height of 6 feet, where the branches begin. The branches 

 art, very numerous and, considering the size of the trunk, 

 very small; the largest of them being only about 2 inches 

 through. They all slope upward rapidly, but the tip and 

 fine spray show a tendency to droop; the fine thread-like 

 branchlets, bearing the leaves of the year, are almost all 

 pendulous. 



The bark is very rough, thick and soft, as I found in 

 pinning on the bit of paper to measure the height of the 

 tree, when I could easily press the pin in to its head. 



