330 WELLINGTONIA; OR 



cans ' Stinking Cedar/ and by the people in the country where 



it grows, ' wild nutmeg.' 



Timber, dense, close-grained, heavy, and of a reddish colour- 

 It is not quite hardy in some parts. 



Gen. WELLINGTONIA. Lindlef/. The Mammoth Tree. 



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

 same plant. 



Cones, large, solitary, obtusely oval, and woody. 



Scales, placed at right angles upon the axis of the cone, 

 wedge-shaped, persistent, and peltated. 



Seeds, from three to five under each scale, but mostly five. 



Seed-leaves, from three to six, but mostly in fours. 



Leaves, needle-shaped, spiral, and persistent, or scale-formed, 

 and imbricated on adult trees. 



Named in compliment to the late Duke of Wellington. 



A gigantic tree from California. 



WELLINGTONIA GiGANTEA, LiTidley, the Mammoth Tree. 

 Syn. Sequoia gigantea, Endlicher. 

 „ Washingtonia gigantea, of the Americans. 

 „ Americanus giganteus, Hort. Amer. 

 „ Taxodii sp., Douglas. 



Leaves, needle-shaped, spirally alternate, spreading, per- 

 sistent, and of a light-green colour on the young plants ; those 

 on the adult trees scale- formed, closely inlaid, rounded on the 

 back, and concave on the inner face j those on the branchlets 

 much shorter, very close, and regularly imbricated ; those on 

 the larger branches longer, looser, decurrent at the base, and 

 tapering to an acute point, but sometimes rather obtuse. 

 Branches, spread out horizontal, much divided, and furnished 



