. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. 212 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS A. Lateral leaves not much larger than the facial ones, both of about equal length on the main axis. B. Branchlets not distinctly pinnately arranged, compressed, slender, glandular, bluish-green 1. C. thyoides BB. Branchlets pinnately arranged in one plane. c. Leaves dark green, not glandular, without white markings below: branchlets nearly 4-sided, stout 2. C. noothatensis cc. Leaves with
. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. 212 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS A. Lateral leaves not much larger than the facial ones, both of about equal length on the main axis. B. Branchlets not distinctly pinnately arranged, compressed, slender, glandular, bluish-green 1. C. thyoides BB. Branchlets pinnately arranged in one plane. c. Leaves dark green, not glandular, without white markings below: branchlets nearly 4-sided, stout 2. C. noothatensis cc. Leaves with glaucous or whitish markings below: branch- lets flattened 3. C. pisifera AA. Lateral leaves much larger than the facial ones, longer than the latter on the main axis, all closely appressed. B. Leaves obtuse, not glandular, lustrous dark green above, with distinct white markings below 4. C. ohtusa BB. Leaves acute or acutish, glandular, bright green or more or less glaucous, the white markings below sometimes in- distinct 5. C. Lawsoniana 1. C. thyoides, Britt. (C. sphoeroidea, Spach. Ciipressus thyoides, L.). White-Cedar. Fig. 35. Tree to 70 or 80 feet, with erect-spreading' branches; trunk with reddish-brown fissured bark divided into flat connected '^'^^^^^ Ji ridges; branchlets irregularly ^^^^^^^m arranged, spreading, not pen- ~" ''^'^tR^S. dulous, very thin and slender, flattened: leaves closely imbri- <v-K3«ii»^ cate on the leading shoots, 35. Chamsecyparis thyoides. .^/^ spreading at the apex, acute, keeled, glaucous or light green, with a conspicuous gland on the back, fragrant: cones small, 3^ mch dia- meter, bluish-purple, with glaucous bloom; seeds 1 or 2, with wings as broad as the seed. From Maine southward near the coast to Florida and west to Mississippi.— Introduced to Great Britain in 1736. The least ornamental and the hardiest of the species, being hardy as far north as Canada. Var. variegata, Sudw. (Cupressus thyoides variegata. Loud.). Varie- ga
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