688 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



the boundary line into Oregon. Buds scaly. Leaves on lateral branches linear 

 and in two ranks in one plane. Bracts of pistillate flowers about twenty, usually 

 with short points. Cones ripening in the first season ; scales abruptly enlarged 

 into terminal discs. 



2. Sequoia gigantea, Decaisne. Western slopes of the Sierra Nevada in 

 California. Buds without scales. Leaves all radially arranged, spreading or 

 slightly appressed, ovate or lanceolate. Bracts of pistillate flowers 25 to 30, with 

 long points. Cones ripening in the second year ; scales gradually thickening from 

 the base to the apex. 



SEQUOIA SEMPERVIRENS, Redwood 



Sequoia //tfrJ, Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 198 (1847); Lawson, Pinet. Brit, iii t. 5* (1884); 



Sargent, Silva N. Amer. x. 141, t. 535(1896), and Trees N. Amer. 68 (1905); Masters, Gard. 



Chron. xix. 556, f. 86 (1896) ; Kent, Veitch's Man. Conifera, 270 (1900). 

 Sequoia gigantea, Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 198 (1847). 

 Sequoia religiosa, Presl, Epimel. Bot, 237 (1849). 

 Taxodium sempervirens, Lambert, Pinus,'\\. 24 t. 7 (1824); Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. iv. 2487 



(1838). 

 Abies religiosa, Hooker and Arnott, Bot. Voy. Beechey, 160 (1841). (Not Lindley.) 

 Schubertia sempervirens, Spach, Hist. Vig. xi. 353 (1842). 



A tree attaining 340 feet in height, with a slightly tapering and irregularly 

 lobed trunk, occasionally 50 to 75 feet in girth above the enlarged and buttressed 

 base. Bark six to twelve inches thick, divided into rounded ridges two or three 

 feet in width, separating on the surface into long narrow fibrous scales, which on 

 falling display the reddish-brown soft spongy fibro-cellular middle bark. Young 

 trees pyramidal, with slender branches to near the base. Older trees in the 

 forest with stems clean to 75 or 100 feet, the stout horizontal branches above 

 forming an irregular narrow crown. Branchlets slender, green in the first year, 

 gradually becoming afterwards brownish with a thin scaly bark, spreading in two 

 ranks more or less in one plane. Buds solitary, both terminal and in the axils of 

 two or three of the uppermost leaves, surrounded by loosely imbricated ovate acute 

 scales, which remain persistent, dry, and brown at the base of the branchlets. 



Leaves of two kinds : (i) on normal lateral branchlets, spreading in one plane 

 in two ranks by a twist on their bases, \ to f inch long, linear or lanceolate, ending 

 in short cartilaginous points, slightly thickened on the revolute margins, narrowed 

 at the base, where they become decurrent on the branchlets ; upper surface dark 

 green, with a median furrow ; lower surface with a green midrib and two conspicuous 

 whitish stomatic bands (2) on leading branchlets, radially arranged in several 

 ranks, appressed or spreading, about \ inch long, ovate or ovate - oblong, with 

 incurved cartilaginous points ; upper surface concave with a prominent green 

 midrib and two whitish stomatic bands ; lower surface rounded, indistinctly 

 stomatiferous. Lateral branchlets with leaves of the latter kind may exceptionally 

 occur on any part of the tree, and usually cover entire branches at the summit of 



