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Gen. SEQUOIA. Endlicher. The Californian Redwood. 



Flowers, moiiojcious, or male and female separate, but on the 

 same plant, solitary and terminal. 



Cones, small, sub-globular, or obtusely oval, and ligneous. 



Seeds, from three to five under each scale, variously-shaped, 

 and winged. 



Leaves, two-rowed, flat, and evergreen. 



Name, not explained. 



A lofty tree, found in California and North-west America. 



Sequoia sempervirens, Endlicher, the Eedwood or Bastard 



Cedar. 

 Syn. Taxodium sempervirens, Lambert. 



„ „ Nutkaense, Lambert. 



,, Schubertia sempervirens, Spach. 

 Leaves, on the lateral branches and branchlets, linear, blunt- 

 pointed, two-rowed, spread out, flat, alternate, straight, rarely 

 falcate, leathery, persistent, shining, dark green, and smooth 

 above, more or less glaucous, and channelled below ; from half 

 an inch to an inch long, but much shorter and smaller near the 

 extremities of the shoots ; those on the principal branches and 

 terminal points of the flower-bearing branchlets are very short, 

 narrow, sharp-pointed, or scale-formed, somewhat imbricated, 

 or closely spiral, decurrent at the base, ribbed, and glaucous 

 below, those on the leading shoots distant and very acute. 

 Branches, spreading, horizontal, rather distant, irregularly scat- 

 tered alternately along the stem, and furnished with numerous 

 lateral ones in two rows, those nearest the base frequently bent 

 downwards, while those towards the extremity are more eleva- 

 ted ; branchlets, very numerous, in two rows, and frequently 

 drooping. Male flowers, globular, solitary at the extremities of 

 the branchlets, on slender footstalks, thickly covered with very 

 small scale-like leaves. Cones, solitary, terminal, somewhat 

 globular, or egg-shaped, rather blunt at the ends, and one inch 



