T. plicata. Nee's Arbor Vine. Pacific coast.
Cupressus thyoides . White Cedar. Middle and South ern States. This tree is found in swamps chiefly in the Atlantic States from Massachusetts to Florida. It has also been found near the Great Lakes. The tree rarely exceeds seventy or eighty feet in height, with a straight, tapering trunk. The wood is light, fine-grained, exceed ingly durable, and easily worked. In New Jersey, it is. largely made into shingles.
c. macrocarpa. Monterey Cypress. California. This' is found in the vicinity of Monterey, Cal., where it grows. fifty to.sixty feet high, with a diameter sometimes of three to four feet. It is one of the finest cypresses known.
C. Nut kaensis. Nootka Cypress. Oregon and the North west coast. This grows at Vancouver's Island and near Nootka Sound. It is a tall tree of eighty to 100 feet high. The timber is white, soft, and valuable.
C. Lawsoniana. Lawson's Cypress. Mountains of Northern California.
C. MacNabianct. McNab's Cypress. Mountains of Cal ifornia and Oregon.
Taxodium distichum. Bald Cypress. Southern States. This tree is found in all the Southern States, extending into Delaware and into Southern Illinois. In rich, alla vial bottoms, it frequeutly grows to the height of 120 feet. The roots often form large conical excrescences, called cypress knees, which rise above the surface of the soil to the height of two to four feet. The wood is fine-grained, soft, elastic, strong, and exceedingly durable. Large quantities are made into shingles, and marketed at the North. Its foliage is delicate and beautiful, but it ie. dropped during the winter.
Sequoia sernpervirens. Redwood. California. This is the mammoth tree of the coast of California, second only to the next species. It rises to the height of 200 to 3oa feet, and sometimes with a circumference of sixty feet. Tee wood is dark red, rather light and brittle, but exceed ingly durable, and makes valuable timber.
S. gigantea. Giant Redwood. California. This is the. mammoth or big tree of California, growing in several groves on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada moan tains, at au altitude of 5,000 to 9,000 feet. The largest. trees arp over thirty feet high, and over thirty feet in diameter.
Libocedrus decurrens. Bastard Cedar. California_ This is sometimes called Red Cedar, or Post Ceder It grows in the Sierras of California, ut elevations of from 3,000 to 7,000 Let. It is a hannsome tree, of low, couical form, tapering fast; four to six feet diameter at base; but only about 100 feet high. The wood is light and strong, and makes excellent cabinet work, boxes, etc.
Juniperus Virginianct. Red Cedar. Eastern United. States. This is the Red Cedar ot the eastern portion of the United States. It grows to the height of thirtT or forty feet, generally with a compact, conical form. The timber is exceedingly valuable, being light, fine-grained, compact, and durable. The heart wood is of a handsome.
dark-red color. It is used for a great variety of ornamen tal work, and for fence po.,ts is almost imperishable. J. Virginiana, var. Bermudictna. Pencil Cedar; Florida Cedar. Coast of Florida. This variety, or species,as it ia regarded by some, grows on the western coast of Florida. The wood is softer and freer from knots th n the common form, and the pencil manufacturers obtain their cedar wood from this source.
J. Virginianct, var. Montana. Rocky Mountain Red Cedar. Rocky Mountains. A form or variety of Red. Cedar found in Colorado and Utah. In the Wasatch mountains, eastern Utah, this iree grows along the canons containing water throughout the year, and not in dry places. Its form is there quite different from the Red' Cedar in the East, being taller and with a looser and less. symmetrical top. The people there say that the wood is not durable, and do not use It for fence posts, etc., as is. done with the eastern variety.
J. occidentalis. Western Cedar. Rocky mountains. California, and Oregon. This is undoubtedly the cedar named by Dr. Hooker J. occidentatis. It grows on the esst side of the Cascade mountains in Oregon and also in California. It is of slow growth, seldom attaining more than a foot in diameter 'and thirty feet in height. The wood is nearly all white, and harder than the Red Cedar. J. occidentalis, var. Texana. Rock Cedar. Texas and westward. This forms extensive woods on rocky soil in. western Texas. The trunk is sometimes over one foot in diameter, yearly rings eccentric. It branches low, and forms almostimpenetrable thickets. It ie common fuel. and fencing timber in western Texas. (Lindheimer.) J. Californica. Sweet fruited JuniperA Southern California. A cedar growing from San Felipe Canon, in the Cuyamaca mountains, southern California, into Ari zona and Mexico. It is a dwarf tree, and is very prolific of berries,which are as large as largo peas, of a somewhat resinous but sweet taste. The Indians consume large quantities of them for food. The seeds are large, smootn,, and free, one or two in each berry.
J. Catifornica, var. Utahense. Western Red Cedar. Utah and California. This is the prevailing cedar of the Wasatch mountains, and longing into Nevada and south ern California. In eastern and central Utah, this tree covers the slopes and foot hills at from 5,000 to 7,000 feet altitude. It is low and spreading at the base, with a dense pyramidal top, light-green foliage, and large, rather woody, berries, not ao nntritioua e those of the preceding kind. The wood is extremely dur ble, and need for fence posts. ln mayhem Utah, the berries are eaten by the Indiana. The bark was formerly nsed by them in manu facturing many articles of clothing.