. 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. 220 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS 5. LIBOCEDRUS, Endl. INCENSE-CEDAR Evergreen trees with scaly bark and spreading or erect branches; branch- lets flattened, rarely quadrangular, frond-like in arrangement: leaves de- cussate, scale-like, with decurrent base, with or without glands: flowers monoecious or rarely dioecious, ter- minal, similar to those of Thuja; the staminate ones with 12-16 decus- sate stamens: cones oblong t
. 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. 220 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS 5. LIBOCEDRUS, Endl. INCENSE-CEDAR Evergreen trees with scaly bark and spreading or erect branches; branch- lets flattened, rarely quadrangular, frond-like in arrangement: leaves de- cussate, scale-like, with decurrent base, with or without glands: flowers monoecious or rarely dioecious, ter- minal, similar to those of Thuja; the staminate ones with 12-16 decus- sate stamens: cones oblong to ovate, with 4, rarely 6, woody scales, the lower pair sterile, short and reflexed, the second one much larger and fertile, each scale bearing 2 long- winged seeds, the third pair, if pres- ent, connate into a woody septum, cotyledons 2. (Name derived from Greek libas, drop, tear, and Cedrus; alluding to the resinous character of the tree.) — Eight species in western North America, South Amer- ica, New Zealand, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Formosa, and south- western China. L. deciirrens, Torr. {L. Craigana, Low. Thuya Craigana, Murr. T. gigantea, Carr., not Nutt.). Cali- fornia I. (White Cedar). Fig. 44 and Plate XVII. Tree to 100, oc- casionally to 200 feet tall, with erect or spreading short branches, forming a rather narrow pyramidal head, irregular in old age; bark bright cinnamon-red, broken into irregular ridges covered with closely appressed scales; branchlets much flattened, bright green on both sides: leaves oblong-ovate, adnate, with long decurrent base, free at the apex and acuminate, glandular on the back: cones pendulous, oblong, ^-1 inch long, light reddish-brown; scales mucronate below the apex, a third connate inch long. Introduced to Europe in sheltered positions. A. Libocedrus decurrens. Oregon to western Nevada and Lower California, in 1853. Hardy as far north as Massachusetts. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may ha
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