508 SECURINEGA SEQUOIA 



S. FLUEGGIOIDES, Mueller (S. japonica, Hort.\ is nearly allied, but has 

 two to five or even more female flowers in one leaf-axil. Native of China, 

 Japan, and Corea. 



SENECIO LAXIFOLIUS, /. Buchanan. COMPOSITE. 



(Dot. Mag., t. 7378.) 



A low, evergreen shrub, 2 to 4 ft. high, of bushy habit ; young stems 

 covered with grey down when young. Leaves alternate, \\ to 2\ ins. 

 long, | to i in. wide ; oval, lanceolate, or sometimes inclined to ovate or 

 obovate, mostly blunt at the apex, tapering at the base, not toothed, 

 covered above when young with a grey, cobweb-like down, afterwards 

 nearly smooth ; under-surface clothed with close white felt ; stalk slender, 

 \ to | in. long. Flower-heads i in. across, produced in summer in loose, 

 terminal, broadly pyramidal panicles, 5 to 8 ins. long, 3 to 5 ins. wide. 

 Ray florets twelve to fifteen, golden yellow, fully spread ; disk florets very 

 small and numerous, forming collectively a reddish brown centre J in. 

 across. 



Native of the mountains of the Nelson and Canterbury provinces of 

 New Zealand, at 2500 to 5000 ft. It needs somewhat milder climatic 

 conditions than those of east and middle England, and although several 

 times tried in the open at Kew, it never has survived more than two or 

 three winters. In the warmer parts of the country it succeeds admirably. 

 Increased by late summer cuttings. 



Nearly allied to and often confused with it is S. GREYI, Hooker fil., 

 which also grows well in the milder counties. This has larger, broader 

 leaves than S. laxifolius, and denser corymbs of flowers. From the North 

 Island, New Zealand. 



SEQUOIA. CONIFERS. 



Two species of remarkable, coniferous, evergreen trees, confined in a 

 wild state to California and Oregon, one of them the largest of the world's 

 trees. They have as their nearest allies the East American deciduous 

 cypress (Taxodium distichum) and the Japanese Cryptomeria, but they 

 are not only very distinct from all other conifers, but from each other. 

 They are not among our hardiest trees, but still thrive well in suitable 

 parts of the British Isles, being seen at their best, perhaps, in the southern 

 half of England, planted in good soil and in well-sheltered spots. 

 S. sempervirens, the redwood, although in many places subject to injury 

 by late frosts, is, on the whole, a greater success than S. gigantea. They 

 should be raised from seeds only. 



S. GIGANTEA, Decaisne. BlG TREE, WELLINGTONIA. 



(Wellingtonia gigantea, Lindley, Bot. Mag., tt. 4777, 4778.) 



An evergreen tree, reaching ultimately from 250 to 325 ft. in height, and 

 forming a trunk 20 to 30 ft. through at the enlarged, buttressed base. Bark 

 I to 2 ft. thick, rich brown-red, and of a fibrous texture. The head of branches 



