134 APPENDIX C. 



Years. 



"Elm 335 



Cheirostemon (a Mexican 



tree) 400 (about) 



Ivy 450 



Larch 576 



Lime 11471076 



Cypress 350 (about) 



Oriental Plane 720 and more 



Granger 630 



Cedar of Lebanon SOO(about) 



Olive 700 (about) 



Oak 15001080810 



Yew 1214145825882880 



Baobab 5150 (in 175?) 



Taxodium (of Oaxaca) 4000 to 6000 (about)." 



"The Baobab (Adansonia digitata) is the 

 most celebrated example of extreme longevity 

 that has yet been observed with precision. It 

 bears in its native country a name which signi- 

 fies a thousand years, and contrary to custom, 

 this name is short of the truth." * 



The following notice respecting this species 

 of tree has been kindly furnished by a friend. 

 " Adanson's own statement concerning the Bao- 

 bab, and his reasonings upon it amount to this. 

 He saw, in one of the two Magdalen Islands, 

 two Baobabs, bearing European names, some 

 of which were very distinctly of the date of the 



* De Candolle, Physiologic Vegetale, torn. ii. p. 

 1003. 



