

92 TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



longitudinal thin ridges extending from the base toward the apex, and conspicuously 

 ruminate albumen. 



A tree, occasionally 40 high, with a short trunk l-2 in diameter, whorls of spreading 

 slightly pendulous branches forming a rather open pyramidal head tapering from a broad 

 base. Bark \' thick, brown faintly tinged with orange color, and irregularly divided by 



Fig. 90 



broad shallow fissures into wide low ridges slightly rounded on the back and covered with 

 thin closely appressed scales. Wood hard, strong, clear bright yellow, with thin lighter 

 colored sap wood; largely used for fence-posts. 



Distribution. On bluffs along the eastern bank of the Apalachicola River, Florida, 

 from River Junction to the neighborhood of Bristol, Liberty County, and in the south- 

 western corner of Decatur County, Georgia (R. M. Harper). Rare and local. 



Now often planted in the public grounds and gardens of Tallahassee, Florida. 



2. Torreya californica Torr. California Nutmeg. 

 Tumion californicum Greene. 



Leaves slightly falcate, nearly flat, dark green and lustrous on the upper, somewhat 

 paler and marked below with a narrow band of stomata, tipped with slender callous 



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