Dr. B. Seemann un the Mammoth-tree uf Upper California. 165 



Sequoia,^n&\. Synop. Couifer. p. 197(1847); Gen. Plant. 

 Suppl. iv. pars ii. p. 7. n. 1808 (1847). Condylocarpus, 

 Salisb. MSS. Taxodii sp., Lamb. 



1. Sequoia Wellingtonia, Seem.* Bonpl. iii. p. 27, in adnot. 

 (1855). 



Wellingtonia gigantea, Lindl. in Gard. Chronicle for 1853, 

 p. 823 (1853) ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4777, 4778 (1854); Van 

 Houtte, Flor. des Ser. ix. p. 93, t. 892, 893, & p. 121, t. 903 

 (1853-54). 



Washingtonia Calif arnica, Winslow in Californian Farmer for 

 1854; Hooker's Journal of Bot. and Kew Misc. vii. p. 29 

 (1855). 



Taxodium Washingtonianum, Winslow, ibid. ; Hooker's Journ. 

 /. c. (1855). 



Sequoia gigantea, Torrey (nee Endl. !) in Rep. on Bot. of 

 Whipple's Expedition, p. 84 [140] (1857). 



Nomina vernacular '^ Mammoth-tree," "Big tree," " Welling- 

 tonia." 



2. Sequoia sempervirens, Endl. Synop. Conifer, p. 198 (1847). 

 Taxodium sempervirens, Lamb. Pin. ii. t. 64. 



Taxodium Nutkoense, Lamb. Herb. 



Taxodium, sp., Dougl. in Bot. Mag. Corap. ii. p. 150 (1836). 

 Sequoia gigantea, Endl. (nee Torrey!) Synop. Conifer, p. 198 

 (1847). 



Nomen vernaculum : " Redwood." 



* The entire literature of the Mammoth-tree is already very voluminous, 

 and, as far as it is known to me, may be here subjoined : — 



American Journal of Science and Arts (Second Series), xvii. p. 440; 

 xviii. pp. 150, 286; xx. p. 281 ; xxiv. p. 440. 



Bonpkndia, ii. p. 238 ; iii. p. 2/ ; vi. p. 343. 



Botanical Magazine, t. 4777, 47/8. 



Bulletin de la Soc. Bot. de France, i. p. 72 (1854). 



Flore des Serres et des Jardins, ix. p. 93, t. 892, 893, p. 121, t. 903. 



Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette for 1853, pp.819, 823; 

 for 1854, pp. 22, 40, 118, 134, 373 ; for 1855, pp. 7, 69, 83, 838 ; for 1856, 

 pp. 260, 502, 518, 634, 567, 580, 631, 643, 694, 726, 742, 774, 790, 805; 

 for 1857, pp. 517, 534, 550, 678, 629, 643; for 1858, pp. 671, 686, 702, 

 717, 733, 814. 



Hamburger Garten- und Blumenzeitung, x. pp. 61, 13.9, 239, 423, 439; 

 xi. p. 120; xii. pp. 235, 489; xiii. pp. 93, 158; xv. p. 12. 



Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, vii. p. 26 ; 

 viii. pp. 106, 150. 



Mammoth-tree from California, by George L. Trask : 4to, 4 pp. (Two 

 pamphlets issued to the visitors when the bark of the tree was exhibited in 

 the Philharmonic Rooms, Newman Street, Oxford Street, and Adelaide 

 Gallery, Strand, London, and containing numerous extracts from the New 

 York and London newspapers in reference to the tree.) 



Report on the Botany of Whijjple's Expedition, bv John Torrey, p. 84 

 [140]. Washington, 1857. 



