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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



CONSPECTUS OF THE NOKTH AMERICAN SPECIES. 



Leaves slig-htly rounded on the back, pale on the lower surface ; fruit more or less deeply 

 tinged with purple ; leaves, branches, and wood fcBtid. 1. T. taxifolium (C). 



Leaves nearly Hat, green below, elongated ; fruit green slightly tinged with purple ; leaves, 

 branches, and wood pungent-aromatic. 2. T. Californicum (G). 



1. Tumion taxifolium, Greene. Stinking Cedar. Torreya. 



Leaves slightly falcate, 1^' long, about |' wide, somewhat rounded, dark green and 

 lustrous above, paler and marked below with broad shallow grooves. Flow^ers 

 appearing in March and April; staminate with pale yellow anthers; pistillate broadly 

 ovate, with a dark purple fleshy covering to tlie ovule, i' long, and inclosed at the 

 base by broad thin rounded scales. Fruit fully grown at midsummer, slightly obovate, 

 dark purple, I'-l^ long, |' broad, with a thin leathery covering, a light red-brown 

 seed furnished on the inner surface of the brittle woody coat with 2 opposite longitu- 

 dinal thin ridges extending from the base toward the apex, and conspicuously rumi- 

 nate albumen penetrated by the brown inner seed-coat. 



A tree, occasionally 40 high, with a short trunk l-2 in diameter, whorls of 

 spreading slightly pendulous branches forming a rather open pyramidal head 



tapering from a broad base. Bark 1' thick, brown faintly tinged with orange 

 color, and irregularly divided by broad shallow fissures into wide low ridges slightly 

 rounded on the back and covered with thin closely appress6d scales. Wood hard, 

 strong, clear bright yellow, with thin lighter colored sapwood; largely used for 

 fence-posts. 



Distribution. Limestone soil on bluffs along the eastern bank of the Appalachi- 

 cola River, Florida, from River Junction to the neighborhood of Bristol, Gadsden 

 County. 



Occasionally cultivated in the northern states and in' western Europe. 



2. Tumion Californicum, Greene. California Nutmeg. 



Leaves slightly falcate, nearly flat, dark green and lustrous on the upper, some- 

 what lighter and marked with deep narrow grooves on the lower surface, tipped with 

 slender callous points, l'-3^' long, -^q'-^' wide. Flowers appearing in March and 



