98 WOODY PLANTS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
the sides or ends of the branches. They slightly resemble 
transformed leaves, each holding in its bosom two bottle-like 
ovaries. The cones are of a light brown color, three-eighths of 
an inch long, consisting of from six to twelve loose, oblong, 
rounded scales, protecting each two seeds, which are edged by 
a narrow wing on each side. 
The arbor vite is interesting from its association with the 
erand and beautiful objects, near which it 1s commonly seen 
growing wild; such as Goat’s Island at Niagara, and the steep 
banks of West Canada Creek at Trenton Falls. It is found 
only in cool and moist situations, but may be cultivated in any 
sround not too dry. Its fantastic and singular shape recom- 
mends it to be planted for the embellishment of water-falls, and 
as a beautiful single tree. 
I. 6. Cepar or Cypress. Cupressus. ‘Tourneforte. 
The cypresses, for to this genus our white cedar belongs, are 
low, evergreen trees, natives of Europe, Asia, and North Amer- 
ica, and remarkable for their spiry form, and the closeness of 
erain, and the durability of their wood. They have a roundish 
or polyedral cone, called a galbule, and small, imbricated, 
scale-like, four-rowed leaves. By the ancients, the cypress was 
considered an emblem of immortality; with the moderns, it is 
emblematical of sadness and mourning. 
Dark tree! still sad, when others’ grief is fled, 
The only constant mourner of the dead.—Byron. 
Tre Wuire Crepar. Cupressus thyoides.  L. 
Figured by Michaux ; Sylva, ITI, Plate 152. 
This is always a graceful and beautiful tree. Even when 
growing in its native swamps, hemmed in on all sides, and 
struggling for existence, the top and a branch or two near the 
top, will be marked by a characteristic elegance of shape which 
no other tree of the family possesses. It is entirely free from 
the stiffness of the pines, and to the spiry top of the poplar, and 
the grace of the cypress, it unites the airy lightness of the 
hemlock. 
