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extremities ; linear-lanceolate, mucronate, soiiietiines falcately curved, 

 0'25 0'75 inch long, inclined forwards at an angle of about 45 

 to the axis, dark green with an almost obsolete 

 median line above, with two pale stomatiferous bands 

 beneath. Staminate flowers on short footstalks clothed 

 with acicular, imbricated, leafy bracts spirally arranged 

 around them, globose or globose-cylindric, consisting of 

 eight ten stamens "with ovate connectives, each 

 bearing three anther cells. Strobiles on short foot- 

 stalks, clothed with minute imbricated scales, terminal 

 on short branchlets of the preceding year, O75 

 1 inch long, composed of fifteen -twenty rhomboidal, 

 peltate scales each bearing five seven seeds. 



Sequoia sempervirens, Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 198. (1847). 

 Murray in Gard. Chron. (1866), p. 971. Carriers, Traite 

 Conif.' ed. II. 210. Parlatore, D. C Prodr. XVI. 436. 

 Hoopes, Evergreens, 244. Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 379. 

 Brewer and Watson, Bot. Califor. II. 116. Sargent, Forest 



Trees N. Amer. 10th Census. U.S.A. IX. 184; and Suva N. Amer, X. 141, 

 t. 535. Beissner, Nadelholzk'. 157, with figs. Masters in Gard. Chron. VIII. 

 ser. 3 (1890), p. 303 with fig; and Journ. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 247. 

 S. gigantea, Endliclier,' Synops. Conif. 198 (in part, not Decaisne). 

 Tax odium sempervirens, Lambert, Genus Finns, II. t. 7 (1824). London, Arb. 

 et Frut. Brit. IV. 2487, with figs. Hooker, W. Flor. Bor. Amer. II. 164. 



Eng. and Amer. California!! Redwood. Germ. Immergriin, Sequoie, Eiben 

 Cypresse. Ital. II Legno rosso di California. 



var. adpressa (syn. all>a 



A smaller tree with shorter and more rigid branches. Leaves 

 shorter, broader, and inclined to their axis at a much more acute angle 

 than in the type ; the younger leaves and tips of the branchlets 

 cream-white, the older leaves giaucescent. 



S. sempervirens adpressa, Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 211. Beissner, 

 Nadelholzk. 159. S. sempervirens alba spica of British gardens. 



The Eedwood inhabits a narrow strip of territory along the 

 Pacific littoral extending for about five hundred miles from the 

 southern boundary of Oregon to a little beyond Monterey in South 

 California, and rarely ranging more than from twenty to thirty miles 

 inland. Within this restricted habitat it presented, when first discovered, 

 one of the most remarkable phenomena of vegetation to be seen 

 throughout the world, whether as regards the gigantic size of 

 individual trees or the enormous amount of vegetable tissue that had 

 been built up within so limited a space. Large stretches of 

 Redwood forest unmixed with other trees covered the country in 

 Mendocino county, along the Russian river north of San Francisco, 

 and in Santa Cruz county south of that city, the trees in places standing 

 so close together as scarcely to leave room for a lumber truck to pass 

 between them. And generally, the lower mountains near the coast 

 were almost exclusively covered with Redwood, which in places 

 spread inland into the canons, presenting to the view masses of 

 timber greater than could be found on an equal area in the densest 



