68 WEST-AMERICAN 



axis; thick and ob- pyramidal, shrinking a little when 

 ripe, and discharging the numerous seeds, but not 

 changing position. Male flowers, yellow, about \ inch 

 long, terminating short branchlets. Male flowers, 

 as well as cones on scaly peduncles \ to 1-J- inches 

 long. Trees of great size with very thick fibrous 

 bark, deeply furrowed longitudinally, and peculiar, 

 reddish, very valuable wood. Twenty-five extinct 

 Species; two survivors! 



No. 1 Coast Redwood - - S. sempervirens, Endl. 



Famous lumber trees of California, growing only 

 near the ocean in numerous groves from Monterey 

 Bay to the Oregon line. Cones the size of a boy's 

 marble; leaves linear, about half an inch long, in two 

 ranks, the longest leaves in the middle of the growth 

 of the season, giving an elliptical form to the flat 

 branchlets, a feature common to other two-ranked 

 leaves, but most conspicuous in this redwood. The 

 peduncles of both male flowers and cones are about 

 *an inch long and clothed with short scales, in striking 

 contrast to the leaves; the end portion of each branch- 

 let similarly clothed with short scales, grading into 

 the elliptically-disposed, linear leaves of the branchlet 



TENACITY AND VALUE OF THE SEQUOIAS. 



The Coast Redwood is unequaled in the Conifir fam- 

 ily for tenacity of life. Stumps freely sprout from the 



