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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 1J 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 



