WHITE CEDAR (Chanureyparis thyoides, Britt). 40 to 80 feet. Narrow, pyramidal tree with short branches, ending in fan-like spray of 2-ranked, flat twigs, covered with the blue green foliage. Bark thin, reddish, shallowly fissured into stringy ridges, often spirally twisted around the trunk. Wood pale reddish-brown, soft, light, aromatic, close-grained, used in boat-building, interior finish of houses, shingles, wooden wares, cooperage, posts, ties. Leaves minute, paired, keeled and pointed, or flat and blunt, appressed to cover twigs, and form flat spray, as in arbor vitae. Flowers April; stamiinte
abundant, red or yellow, globular; pistillate few, greenish, oblong, usually of 6 shield-shaped, fertile scales with 2 to 5 bottle-shaped ovules at the base of each. Fruit a cone, small, spherical, of thickened, peltate scales, pea green, becoming brown; seeds 1 to 2 under each scale, winged. Dist.: Swampy land near coast; Atlantic and Gulf States, to Mississippi. Planted as an ornamental tree, but not commonly.