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Gen. SEQUOIA. EndUcher. The Californian Redwood. 



Flowers monoecious, or male and female separate, but on the 

 same plant, solitary and terminal. 



Cones small, sub-globular, or obtusely oval, and ligneous. 



Seeds from three to five under each scale, variously-shaped, 

 and winged. 



Leaves two-rowed, flat, and evergreen. 



Name probably from " sequence," separated, or following in 

 order of succession, after Taxodium ; from which Professor 

 Endlicher separated it. 



A lofty tree, found in California and North-west America. 



Sequoia sempervirens, Endlicher, the Californian Redwood 



or Bastard Cedar. 



Syn. Taxodium sempervirens, Lambert. 

 Nutkaense, Lambert. 



Schubertia sempervirens, Spacli. 

 Condylocarpus sempervirens, Salisbury. 



Leaves on the lateral branches and branchlets, linear, blunt- 

 pointed, two-rowed, spread out, flat, alternate, straight, rarely 

 falcate, leathery, persistent, shining, dark green, and smooth 

 above, more or less glaucous, and channelled below ; from half 

 an inch to an inch long, but much shorter and smaller near 

 the extremities of the shoots ; those on the principal branches 

 and terminal points of the flower-bearing branchlets are very 

 short, narrow, sharp-pointed, or scale-formed, somewhat im- 

 bricated, or closely spiral, decurrent at the base, ribbed, and 

 glaucous below, those on the leading shoots distant and very 

 acute. Branches spreading, horizontal, rather distant, irregu- 

 larly scattered alternately along the stem, and furnished with 

 numerous lateral ones in two rows, those nearest the base fre- 

 quently bent downwards, while those towards the extremity 

 are more elevated. Branchlets very numerous, in two rows, 

 and frequently drooping. Male flowers globular, solitary at 

 the extremities of the branchlets, on slender foot-stalks, thickly 



