TRAVELER'S TREE 

 TEAVELEK'S TREE. Bee Eavenala 



TREASURE VINE. Name proposed by J. 

 for llidalgoa WL-rcklei or Childsia Wercklei. 



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The ,1. It. St ,1 

 i.sc« ot whl. h 

 the foot of Mt Etna in Si( 

 feet m diameter After this the gieatest dnmeter ob 

 served is m Taxodnim miioonutiim about 40 feet, 

 and m Platnnw^ otientahs about the same, in Sequoia 



the ground under normal conditions with a single stem 

 and attaining a certain height, fixed b> some at 20 by 

 otheis at It feet or e\ en less A more e-^a. t definition 

 has been given b\ B E Pernow Tiees ire woody 

 plants the seed of which h^s the inheient c ipacity of 

 producing naturally withm their native limits one nnin 

 erect axis continuing to grow for a numbei of ^e^Is 

 more vigoiouslv than the lateral axes and th. lower 

 branches .h in_ 11 iii tinu 



Trees 11 tli m tji minent feature ot the \egetal k 

 world and ui] ill tli i oiganic b. mgs m height 



magnitu.k ami I iii_ Mt\ The gre it t li i^lit kii wu 

 has been readml l>^ f iii_iiliiptii<< ii ' i \ii 



tralia, of which trees have been ol i 10 



feet high In length but not in 1 i im 



even this tree IS surpassed b> soni. i n il nt 1^ i_ 

 said to attain the length of 900 feet in 1 1 mt- limb 



mg palms of Java attaining sometimes 000 feet Fol 

 lowing Eucalyptus amyqdalina is probably Sequoia 

 sempervtrens, which attains 325 feet and occasionally 



giqantea 35 feet, in Taxodtnm disticlium SO feet, and 

 somewhat less in Adanionia digitata 



The age attributed to nnnv of the tallest trees is 

 basfi m i or le s m i^ ,i ,t, „ n,, 1 i iTiioii--- nffr-n 



IHiUiii I il I \ I It iijaiiUa mil ( ih ii s I ilia ii i more 

 thm liiin ,, 



\U\i n_h lit II aie the most conspicuous features 

 of the \ ^ t ii I I in.;.lom they represent only a small 

 ppicent I.,, f f it as regards the number of species. In 

 the United States where about 550 trees occur, they 

 ri present only about V., per cent of the whole phanero- 

 gamic flora m Europe even less As a rule, towards 

 the tropics the number of tree like species increases, 

 towards the arctic regions it decreases Remarkably rich 

 in trees is the flora of Japan where the proportion of 

 trees to the whole phanerogamic flora is more than 10 



