ARBORETUM NOTES. 169 
CONIFERA®. 
CUPRESSINEZE. 
about one inch long, in shape nearly ellipsoidal, 
or approaching to a short, thick cylinder, abrupt 
at both ends: their scales of a rather corky 
texture ; the disk rhomboidal with the transverse 
diameter the greatest, tumid and uneven, with 
mecepression in the centre and a shght crest 
or ridge running transversely each disk. 
The Taxodium sempervirens of Sir W. Hooker’s 
Icones Plantarum (vol. 4, tab. 379), seems to be 
something quite different from this, as the leaves 
are represented as not at all 2-ranked, but erect, 
and densely clothing the branches on all sides. 
The fruit is. not shown. Lambert’s figure under 
the name of Taxodium sempervirens represents 
an imperfect specimen, with an old and empty 
cone, but agrees accurately enough with our 
plant. 
The peculiar generic name, Sequoia was given 
(by Endlicher ?) in commemoration of a Cherokce 
chief, celebrated as having ‘invented an original 
“alphabet, and spent his life in endeavouring 
fro enlighten and eleyate his race.” (Emerson: 
Trees and Shrubs of Massachusetts, ed. 3.v. 1., p. 66. 
Sequoit 
sempervirens 
