Plate XI.—Thuja occidentalis.
| 1. Flowering branch with the preceding year's fruit. |
| 2. Branch. |
| 3. Sterile flower. |
| 4. Stamen. |
| 5. Fertile flower. |
| 6. Scale with ovules. |
Cupressus thyoides, L.
Chamæcyparis sphæroidea, Spach. Chamæcyparis thyoides, B. S. P.
White Cedar. Cedar.
Habitat and Range.—In deep swamps and marshes, which it often fills to the exclusion of other trees, mostly near the seacoast.
Cape Breton island and near Halifax, Nova Scotia, perhaps introduced in both.