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closely placed in two rows, nearly or quite opposite, rounded 

 at the base, and somewhat recurved at the extremity, linear, 

 frequently falcate, stiff, of a leathery texture, on very short 

 foot-stalks, twisted, and decurrent at the base, and tapering to a 

 long acute spiny point at the apex, somewhat lanceolate ; from 

 one to one inch and three-quarters long, and one line and a half 

 broad, of a light green, glossy, and convex on the upper surface, 

 but without any nerve along the middle, while the under one is 

 slightly concave near the edges, pale glaucous gray, and marked 

 on each side of the mid-rib with two reddish narrow sunken 

 bands. Branches numerous, mostly in whorls, spreading, 

 smooth, and two or three forked at each division. Branchlets 

 somewhat two-rowed, and horizontal. Male catkins linear ; 

 female flowers without foot-stalks, and erect. Fruit, when ripe, 

 oval, a little pointed, nearly as large as an ordinary walnut, 

 with the external coat fleshy or rather leathery, and covering 

 the whole surface of the seed, except a minute perforation at 

 the top. Seed solitary, and when deprived of its succulent 

 external covering, very much resembling a large acorn, with a 

 beautiful ruminated albumen, resembling the inside of a nut- 

 meg and covered with a hard bony shell. Seed-leaves in 

 twos. 



A handsome pyramidal-shaped evergreen tree, with numerous 

 spreading branches, growing from forty to fifty feet high, and 

 eighteen inches in diameter ; found in the middle and Northern 

 parts of Florida, growing abundantly about Aspalaga, on Calca- 

 rous Rocks, and along the banks of rivers near Flat Creek. The 

 whole plant has a strong and particularly disagreeable smell, 

 especially when bruised or burned, and is called by the Ameri- 

 cans " Stinking Cedar," and by the people in the country where 

 it grows, " wild nutmeg." 



Timber dense, close-grained, heavy, and of a reddish colour. 



It is not quite hardy in some parts. 



