Taxodium 
distichum 
Sequoia 
sempervirens 
166 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
CONIPERZE. 
CUPRESSINE#. 
range in those Meiocene times, for its remains 
have been found in Italy, Southern France, 
Switzerland, Silesia, and Bohemia, as well as in 
the far northern regions I have mentioned.* 
SEQUOIA SEMPERVIRENS. 
Endlicher, Synopsis, Contfer@, 198. 
Gordon, Pinetum. 
VERT ee 
TAXODIUM SEMPERVIRENS. 
Lambert's Pinetum (ed. 1832) v. 2., tab. 64 (and of 
eardeners generally), but seemingly sot of 
Hooker’s Icones Plantarum. 
Succeeds very well at Barton. The one in 
the arboretum, pianted, 1847, 1s a remarkably 
fine, handsome, and well grown plant, and the 
only one I have seen that has borne cones ; 1n the 
three years from September 1848 to September, 
1851, it gained five feet two inches in height; its 
leading shoot was killed in the winter of 1860, and 
its increase in height has thereby been much 
checked ; yet it must be now at least 25 feet high. 
Its lower branches are so numerous and crowded, 
so long and strong that I have not been able to 
get near enough to the trunk to measure it 
Schimper.—Tratté de Paléontologie Végétale, p. 323. 
