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year earlier than Seaman's name of Sequoia Wellingtonia , 

 and in a journal (the California Farmer) of highest stand- 

 ing, wide circulation, sedulously kept on file in principal 

 lihraries, and which has heen quoted to date in descriptions 

 of the tree. Sentiment aside, for it has nothing to do with 

 science, the names Weliingtonia and gigantea are both un- 

 tenable, and must be dropped, while Sequoia and Wash- 

 ingionianum are supported by the rules. Taking Winslow's 

 name and changing the final anum to ana, which is rulable 

 to make it agree with Sequoia , the amended Washingtoniana 

 must be affixed to Sequoia (the first to do this being Mr. 

 Sudworth) and both used as the full botanical name of the 

 most magnificent tree on the face of the earth, there to 

 remain as long as science is fostered by enlightened nations, 

 incidentally but most fittingly commemorating the grandest 

 personage in history George Washington. 



NOMENCLATURE OF WESTERN TREES. 



Exploration prosecuted with great diligence of late has 

 practically ended discovery on the Pacific Slope and all the 

 distinct species and marked varieties most probably have 

 been detected and their characters published. This great 

 aggregation of forests, comprising an especial development 

 which in point of diversity of species and the size of trees 

 and cones is unparalleled on the earth, is at length thor- 

 oughly explored and it is a great satisfaction to know that 

 the traveler or common observer may now be able to readily 

 recognize and to enjoy the trees with a sense of certainty 

 of identity that has not hitherto attended their study. 



Happily too, discoveries among the publications of early 

 explorers and authors have been prosecuted so thoroughly 



