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in contact with the soil ; pith-rays very distinct (Fig. 61). The 

 most valuable of Calif ornian timber-trees, and the most used 

 material for building and carpentry in the State, used also for 

 sleepers, fencing, telegraph-poles, shingles and furniture, corre- 

 sponding in quality and uses to White Cedar. Though suited 

 for drawers or lining, it is somewhat too monotonous for orna- 

 mental furniture. In the London cabinet trade it is now known 



FIG. 61. Transverse section of Californian Redwood (Sequoia semperviretu). 



as " Sequoia." Though sending up vigorous coppice-shoots when 

 felled " at the present rate of destruction not an unprotected 

 Sequoia of timber-producing size will be left standing twenty 

 years hence" (J. G. Lemmon in 1895). 



Redwood, Coromandel or Indian. See Mahogany, East 

 Indian. 



Redwood, in Jamaica. See Ironwood xxiii. 



Rewa-rewa (Knightia extflsa R. Br. : Order Protedcece). New 

 Zealand. Known also as " Honeysuckle-wood." Height 100 ft. 



