ARBORETUM NOTES. 171 
CONIFER. 
CUPRESSINE&. 
and yet do not, as far as I have yet seen, suffer 
from the hardest frosts. 
This species of Seguoia differs remarkably from 
the original and typical one (S. sempervirens), by 
the.form and arrangement of its leaves, which 
instead of being flat and linear, like those of the 
Yew, and directed two opposite ways, soas to give 
an appearance of flatness to the young branches, 
are between subulate and acicular in shape, 
sharp-pointed, but slightly spreading and arranged 
spirally all round the branches without any 
tendency toa flat 2-ranked disposition. In fact, 
they are more like the leaves of the Cryptomeria 
than of Sequoia sempervirens. 1 speak of the leaves 
on the young plants, which are all that I have 
seen. 
The cones, however, described from Californian 
specimens in the Kew museum, closely resemble 
those of the first species, except in being larger, 
and of a more decidedly ovoid shape. I am not 
aware that they have yet been produced in 
Europe. 
meiviarch, 1866). It is very «curious that one 
of our young Wellingtonias at Barton, planted 
only two years and a half ago, and now hardly 
more than three feet high, should already have 
produced several cones fully formed and almost 
as large as those I have seen in the Kew museum. 
Sequoia 
gigantea 
