. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Incense Cedar 93 The trunk is tall and straight, broadly and irregularly lobed at the base, from which it gradually tapers. The branches are slender, somewhat pendulous below, but erect toward the top, forming a narrow, open head. Very old trees are more or less irregularly outlined, owing to the abnormal development of some of the branches. The bark is about 2 cm. thick, irregularly furrowed into close, scaly ridges of a
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Incense Cedar 93 The trunk is tall and straight, broadly and irregularly lobed at the base, from which it gradually tapers. The branches are slender, somewhat pendulous below, but erect toward the top, forming a narrow, open head. Very old trees are more or less irregularly outlined, owing to the abnormal development of some of the branches. The bark is about 2 cm. thick, irregularly furrowed into close, scaly ridges of a bright red-brown color. The twigs are rather stout, somewhat flattened, yellowish green, soon becoming round, brown, or purplish brown, and marked with circular scars; the lateral twigs are flattened, and fall off after two or three years. The leaves are in whorls of 4, scale-Uke, oblong or obovate, decurrent, and closely joined to the twigs except at the thickened sharp-pointed apex; the lateral ones are glandular and keeled, the inner are much compressed and almost covered by the lateral; on the leading twigs they are about i cm. long, those on the smaller twigs only about one third as long. The flowers, appearing about the end of January, are monoecious, the two kinds occurring at the tips of short, lateral twigs, but on different branchlets, the stami- nate in great profusion, often giving the tree a golden aspect; they are nearly sessile, ovoid, 5 DMn. long, consisting of 12 to 15 stamens with short, stout filaments and broad yellow connectives. The pistillate flowers are subglobose to oblong, about 3 mm. long, subtended by several pairs of broadly ovate acute scales, which remain at the base of the fruit, which ripens and drops its seed in the autumn of the same season but persists until the next spring. The cones are drooping, oblong, 18 to 25 mm. long, somewhat oblique at the base, light reddish brown, composed of 3 pairs of opposite scales, the lower ovate, acute, rec
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