. Timber trees and forests of North Carolina . ct with the soil; light brown in color; the thinsapwood nearly white. It is used for fencing, telegraph poles,railroad ties, and shingle?^, and sometimes for cabinet work andbuilding. An oil distille:! from the leaves has been used in pul-monary complaints. Cupressus thyoides, Linnaeus.* (white cedar, juniper.) A slender evergreen tree, with numerous short spreading *Ctiamaecyparis sphaeroiclea, Spach 120 TIMBER TREES OF NORTH CAROLINA. branches which cover the greater part of the trunk and form aconical head, and reddish-brown deeply furrowed or
. Timber trees and forests of North Carolina . ct with the soil; light brown in color; the thinsapwood nearly white. It is used for fencing, telegraph poles,railroad ties, and shingle?^, and sometimes for cabinet work andbuilding. An oil distille:! from the leaves has been used in pul-monary complaints. Cupressus thyoides, Linnaeus.* (white cedar, juniper.) A slender evergreen tree, with numerous short spreading *Ctiamaecyparis sphaeroiclea, Spach 120 TIMBER TREES OF NORTH CAROLINA. branches which cover the greater part of the trunk and form aconical head, and reddish-brown deeply furrowed or loose barkreaching a height of 90 and a diameter of 5 feet. It occurs in deep cold swamps from Maine along the coast tonorthern Florida and Mississippi, and is rare west of Mobile bay. In tills State, where it reaches an average height of 40 and anaverage diameter of 2 feet, it grows in wet sandy, often peaty, soilsin the coastal plain region, extending westward to Wake and Anson MAP OFNORTH CAROLINA SCALE Of MILES SO ^HWf^; Fio. 31. .-fi^^^.. LEGENDl-^p} Distribution of the PITCH PINE(Pinus rigida, MiH.) Distribution of the WHITE CEDAR orJUNIPER (Cupressus thyoides, L.) counties. (Fig, 31) It frequently occurs in pure forest, or withthe white bay, or scattered in small clumps, in cypress and gumswamps. The juniper bears seed very plentifully nearly every are common near the parent trees, but usually die underdeep shade. Fire is very destructive to trees of all ages, andextensive areas of valuable timber have been burned, particularlyin the Dismal Swamp. In many swamps large quantities of fallentrees, sound and lit for lumber, lie buried at various depths. The leaves are very small, ovate-pointed, awl-shaped, andclosely appressed in 4 rows. The male and female flowers areseparate but on the same plant; the male catkins cylindrical, thefemale globose. The cones are very small and globular, withthick scales bearing 2 or more seeds at the base. The juniper, atleast
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