Douglasiane. N. O. Taxinez. 
TAB. -CCCLKXIX. 
Taxopium SEMPERVIRENS, Lamb, ? 
Foliis sempervirentibus subdistichis erecto-patentibus laxe im- 
bricatis linearibus acutis supra canaliculatis glabris subtus 
glaucis subpulverulentis marginatis costa prominente, gal sti 
lis (?) junioribus squamis ovatis membranaceis fuscis obtectis. 
Taxodium sempervirens. Lamb. Pin. t. 643? Hook, et Arn. 
Bot. of Beech, Voy. p. 892. 
Abies religiosa. Hook. et Arn. Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 160. (eal. 
syn. H,B.K., and of Cham. and Schlecht.) 
Han. California; Douglas, Beechey. 
Tregret that I am not able to give a more complete figure 
of a Taxodium, as it is supposed to be, which Mr —_ 
describes as the « great beauty of the Californian vegetation, 
which gives the mountains a most peculiar, I was going to say, 
awful appearance,—something which plainly tells me ey 
not in Europe. I have repeatedly measured specimens of t i 
tree 270 feet long, and 32 feet round, at three feet above the 
Stound. Some few I saw upwards of 300 feet high, but a 
in which the thickness was greater than those Depart IE f 
It does not so well accord with Tawodium sempervirens © 
Lambert, as to induce me to consider it decidedly that an 
but I hope the attention of Californian travellers may 1 ture 
be directed to it, and that we shall be able, on some other pee! 
sion, to represent the flowers and the fruit of this most mag 
ficent denizen of western America. 
‘ fied. 
Pay. 1. Upper, and f. 2. Underside of a leaf -—magnifie 
