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MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. 
distichous: It is perhaps only a stunted variety, growing in an unfavourable 
soil. 
Flowers in February. 
2. Thyoides. Lin. 
C. ramulis compres- 
sis; foliis quadrifariam 
imbricatis, ovatis, basi 
tuberculatis; strobilis 
globosis, parvis. 
Branches compress- 
ed; leaves in 4 rows 
imbricate, ovate, tuber- 
culate at base; cones 
spherical, small. 
Sp. pi. 4. p. 512. Mich. 2. p. 208. Pursh, 2. p. 646. Nutt. 2. p. 224. 
Icon. Mich. arb. for. 3. p. 20. 
A tree of moderate dimensions, sometimes however attaining the height of 
70 or 80 feet in height, and from 2 to 3 in diameter. The leaves are peren- 
nial, nearly resembling scales, imbricate on the compressed branches. Floto- 
ers axillary among the small branches. Cone globular, on a short pedicel 3 
to 4 lines in diameter. The scales somewhat rhomboidal. 
The wood of this tree is soft, fine-grained, light and durable. It has near- 
ly all the good qualities of the Cupressus Disticha; and, therefore, where it 
is abundant, it is applied as far as its size will admit, to all of the uses for 
which that species is employed. 
Grows in the great morasses which are found near the sea-coast in the 
Middle States. In the Southern States it becomes rare. I have been in- 
formed that it grows in and around the savannas in Horry and Williamsburg 
Districts. Michaux mentions that he heard of it as far south as the borders 
of the Savannah River. 
Flowers — 
ACALYPHA. 
Mas tuli. Calyx 3 
s. 4-pliyllus. Corolla 
0. Stamina 8 — 16. 
Foeminei. Calyx 3- 
phyllus. Corolla ' 0. 
Styli 3. Capsula 3- 
locularis. Semen 1. 
Gen. Pi.. 1461. 
Sterile Jlorets. Ca- 
lyx 3 — 4 leaved. Co- 
rolla 0. Stamens 8 — - 
16. 
Fertile Florets. Ca- 
lyx 3-leaved. Corolla 
0. Styles 3. Capsule 
3-celied. Seed one in 
each cell. 
