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BOTANY. 



Francisco, but to be everywbere rather a rare tree. It attains but a moderate size, 50 — 75 

 feet in height, and has somewbat the aspect of a Taxodium, or yew, to the foliage of which its 

 leaves have a marked resemblance. The fruit, irom its texture and appearance, has been 

 compared to a nutmeg, but is too strongly charged with turpentine to be used as a condiment. 



Fig. 27. 

 Fig. 27. A branch, with leaves and fruit of T. Californica, natural size. 



Very full analyses of its botanical characters are given by Nuttall and Sir W. Hooker. It is 

 said to form a graceful and handsome tree, and, as its nuts have been made to germinate by the 

 horticulturists of New York, we may soon expect to see it introduced into general cultivation. 



Cupressus Nutkatensis. The Nootka cypress. 



C. Nctkatensi8, Lamb. Pinus, No. 60. 



C. Nutkatensis. Hook. Flor. Bor. Amer. 2, p. 165. 



Thuja excelsa, Bong. Veget. de Silcha, p. 46. 



Description. — A tree of moderate size ; branches sub-erect, tetragonal ; leaves ovate acuminate, 

 imbricate in four rows without tubercles ; galbules as large as peas, or larger, terminating 

 the smaller branches ; scales umbonate, srrootli, or radiately striate. 



The only locality in which we met with this tree was on the Cascade Mountain, about latitude 

 44° north, though I have reason to believe that it will be fouud at intervals throughout the 

 Sierra Nevada and the Cascades, in California and Oregon. 



