BOTANY. 



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with which its scale-like leaves are fitted to each other, resemhles the fronds of ferns, and is 

 exceedingly beautiful. 







Fig. 22 



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Fig. 22. Leaf, cone, and seed of T. gigantia, natural size. 



The branches are more drooping than on the common white cedar, and the tree more symme- 

 trical and yet more graceful. 



The wood is white and easily worked, and is much esteemed for lumber when the tree grows 

 luxuriantly. 



Sequoia sempervirens. The redwood. 



S. sempervirens. Endl. Syn. Conif. p. 198. 



S. sempervirens. Gray in Sill. Jour., 2d ser. 18, p. 150. 



Taxoditjm sempervirens. Lamb. Pinus, ed. 2, 2, t. 64. 



T. sempervirens. Hook. & Am. Bot. Beach, p. 392. 



Abies religiosa. Schlecht & Chamiss. in Linn. 5, p. 77. 

 The redwood is the second in size and the first in importance of all the trees of California, 

 though not far surpassing the sugar pine in either respect. 



It is said nearly to equal in dimensions the other species of Sequoia, which has been specially 

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