7. CHAMAECYPARIS Spach, 1842. 
Trees or shrubs with brownish bark and spreading, 
ascending, or sometimes drooping branches. Leaves 
of two kinds, awl-shaped, or minute, acute, appressed, 
4-ranked, glandular. Flowers monecious: the stami- 
nate in cylindric or oblong aments: the pistillate sub- 
globose. Ovules 2-5 in the axil of each fertile scale. 
Fruit globose, maturing the same season. Seed some- 
what winged. 
1. C. Thyoides (L.) B.S. P. 
Cupressus nana Mariana, frud@u ceruleo par- 
Vowel een yO laut ag 45 set. Ten 7OO. 
Cupressus Thyoides L. Sp. Pl. 1003. Sargent, 
Silva gor tuts bes 2o. 
Chamecyparts thyotdes B.S. P. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 
71.1888. Sarg. Man. 81. 
WHiTE CEDAR. 
Tree 15-30 m. in height, with shreddy or scaly red- 
brown bark: it resembles somewhat Thuja occidentalts, 
from which it differs by its darker green, glandular foli- 
age and its small, armed fruit. 
Frrons s. rami cum folits imbricati & compresst ex- 
acte eodem modo, guo Thuja, at fructus, magnitudine 
baccarum junipert, finditur ut tn Cupresso. 
Linneus, \. c. 
‘¢Abundant in parts of the Dismal Swamp (Nos. 87. 
C. & K., 1600, 1663). Locally known as ‘Juniper’.” 
Kearney, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 5: 512. 1901. 
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