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356 powerful attractions; and where the soil is given over to agriculture the production of timber of course stops.

The Pond Cypress (Taxodium imbricarium, or ascendens) is confined

 (Taxodium ascendens) April, 1909. This species is readily distinguished from T. distichum by its crooked trunk and coarser bark, among other things.

to the coastal plain, from eastern North Carolina (perhaps as far north as the Dismal Swamp) to southern Florida (south end of the Everglades) and eastern Louisiana. It extends over 150 miles inland in the Carolinas and Georgia, but apparently not over 100 miles in Alabama or 60 miles in Mississippi. It seems to be most abundant in Georgia, where it does not form large forests, but is often the dominant