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exceedingly tough, elastic, and durable, and much es- 
teemed by turners. The tree isof very slow growth, 
and reaches a great age, perhaps several thousand 
years ; some ancient ones are known with a stem of 
fifty feet in girth. 
Taxus brevifolia, Nuttall. (1. Lindleyana, Laws. ) 
—North-west America. Western Yew. A stately 
tree, seventy-five feet high, with a stem of five feet in 
circumference. The Indians use the wood for their 
bows. 
Thuya gigantea, Nutt.—North-west America, on 
the banks of the Columbia River.. The Yellow Cy- 
press of the colonists. A straight, graceful tree, two 
hundred feet high, furnishing a valuable building 
timber, of a pale or light yellow color. 
Thuya occidentalis, L.—North America, particular- 
ly frequent in Canada. A fine tree, seventy feet 
high ; the wood is reddish or yellowish, fine-grained, 
very tough, and resinous, and well fit for building, 
especially for water work. The shoots and also an 
essential oil of this tree are used in medicine; the 
bast can be converted into ropes. 
Thuyopsis dolabrata, Sieb and Zuec. —Japan. A 
majestic tree, furnishing an excellent hard timber of 
a red color. 
Torreya Californica, Torr. (T. Myristica, Hooker.) 
—In California. Tree eighty feet high. 
Torreya grandis, Fortune.—China. A tree sixty 
feet high, with an umbrella-shaped crown ; it pro- 
duces good timber. 
Torreya nucifera, 8. and Z. (Caryotaxus nucifera, 
Zuce.) —Japan. Height of tree, about thirty feet. 
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