u or 
TAXODIUM DISTICHUM. 
Deciduous Cypress, Bald Cypress, Black Cypress, White Cypress, and Swamp Cedar of the United States. 
Sabino of the Mexicans. 
Identification.— CU PRESS US VIRGINIANA TRADESCANTI, Ray, Hist. Plant., ii. p. 408 (1688). 
CUPRESSUS VIRGINIANA, FOLIIS ACACIA£ DECIDUIS, Commelyn, Hortzis Amstel., i. p. 113(1697). 
CUPRESSUS VIRGINIANA, FOLDS ACACIA CORNIGERDi PARIBUS ET DECIDUIS, Plunket, Almag., 
i. p. 125 (1700). 
CUPRESSUS AMERICANA, Catesby, Carolin., i. p. 11 (1731). 
CUPRESSUS DISTICDA, Linn., Spec. Plant., p. 1422 (1753) ; Lamark, Did., ii. p. 244 (1786); Desfont., Hist. Arbr., ii. 
p. 567(1809); Schk., Botanische Handbuch, iii. p. 288 ( ); Michaux, Arb. Forest., iii. p. 4 (1813); Pursh., Flor. 
Bor. Am., ii. p. 645 (1814); Nuttal, Gen. Amer., ii. p. 224 (1818); De Chambray, Traite Prat. Arb. Res. Conif., 
p. 349 (1845). 
SCDUBERTIA DISTICDA, Mirbel, in Mem. Mus., xiii. p. 75 (1825); Spach, Hist. Nat. Vlg. Phaner., xi. p. 349 (exclus. 
v. / 3 ) (1842). 
TAXODIUM DISTICMUM, Loisel., Nouv. Duham., iii. p. 8 (1801-19); Lambert, Genus Pinus, ed. 1, ii. p. 26 
(1803); Richard, in Ann. Mus., xvi. p. 298 (1810); Dumb., Bonpl., and Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Spec., ii. p. 4 (1817); 
Richard, Conif., p. 52 (1826); ed. 2, ii. p. 116 (1828); Brongn., in Annal. Sc. Nat., 1, ser. 30, p. 182 (1838); 
Loudon, Arbor. Brit., iv. p. 2480 (1838); Forbes, Pinet. Woburn., p. 177(1839); Loudon, Encycl. of Trees, p. 1077 
(1842); Endlicher, Syn. Conif., p. 66 (1847); Lindley and Gordon, Journ. Hort. Soc., v. p. 207 (1850); Carriere, 
Traitt Gin. des Conif., p. 144 (1855); Morren, in Belg. Hort., vi. p. 74 (1856); Gordon, Pinetum, p. 305 (1858); 
Carriere, in Rev. Hort., viii. p. 62 (1859) ; Denkel and Dochstetter, Synop. Nadelholzen, p. 258 (1865). 
TAXODIUM MACROPDYLLIJM, Brongn., in Annal. Sc. Nat., 1, ser. 30, p. 182 (1833); Endlicher, Syn. Conif., p. 68 
• (1847) I Lindley and Gordon, Journ. Hort. Soc., v. p. 207 (1850). 
TAXODIUM ASCENDENS, Brongn., in Annal. Sc. Nat., 1, ser. 30, p. 182 (1833); Endlicher, Syn. Conif., p. 68 (1847); 
Lindley and Gordon, Journ. Hort. Soc., v. p. 207 (1850). 
Engravings — Cones and Leaves. —Commelyn, op. cit., f. 59 ; Plunket, op. cit., t. 85, f. 6 ; Catesby, op. cit., t. 11 ; Michaux, op. cit., t. 1 ; Schk., op. cit., 
t. 310; Richard, Conif., t. 10; Lambert, op. cit., ed. 2, t. 63; Forbes, op. cit., t. 60; Loudon, Arbor. Brit., iv. p. 2481, 
f- 2335 and 2338 ; Loudon, Encycl. of Trees, p. 1077, f. 2005 and 2006 ; Carriere, Rev. Hort., viii. p. 64-65. 
Trees. —Loudon, Arbor. Brit., iv. p. 2482, f. 2336 and 2337 ; Morren, Belg. Hort., vi. t. 
Specific Character .—Taxodium ramis ramulisque patentibus, foliis linearibus distichis deciduis. 
Habitat in partibus australibus Americas alis et in Mexico boreale. 
A large tree reaching from 80 and 90 to 100 or 120 feet in height, and with a stem from 20 to 40 feet 
in circumference. Pyramidal in form when young, with slender tapering branchlets ; but when old, it has 
a broad Cedar-like head, and its branches are characterized by abrupt angular bends or knees. When the 
tree is mature, and especially when grown in water, it sends up conical or beehive-shaped knees from the 
roots, often of 3 or 4 feet, or even more, in height, but neither in water nor in dry land rising more than a few 
inches above the surface. Bark brown, but, as well as the timber, lighter in colour in those trees which grow in 
the water than in those growing in a drier soil. The bark of the conical root protuberances is redder than that of 
the trunk. Branchlets slender. Buds minute, acutely ovate at both ends. Foliage pinnate, open, light, and 
[ 20 ] B feathery. 
