688 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 
the boundary line into Oregon. Buds scaly. Leaves on lateral branches linear 
and in two ranks in one plane. Bracts of pistillate flowers about twenty, usually 
with short points. Cones ripening in the first season ; scales abruptly enlarged 
into terminal discs. 
2. Sequoia gigantea, Decaisne. Western slopes of the Sierra Nevada in 
California, Buds without scales. Leaves all radially arranged, spreading or 
slightly appressed, ovate or lanceolate. Bracts of pistillate flowers 25 to 30, with 
long points. Cones ripening in the second year; scales gradually thickening from 
the base to the apex. 
SEQUOIA SEMPERVIRENS, ReEpwoop 
Sequoia sempervirens, Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 198 (1847); Lawson, Pinet. Brit, iii, t. 52 (1884); 
Sargent, Silva N. Amer. x. 141, t. 535 (1896), and Trees W. Amer. 68 (1905); Masters, Gard. 
Chron. xix. 556, f. 86 (1896); Kent, Veitch’s Man. Conifera, 270 (1900). 
Sequoia gigantea, Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 198 (1847). 
Sequoia religiosa, Presi, Epimel. Bot. 237 (1849). 
Taxodium sempervirens, Lambert, Pinus, ii. 24 t. 7 (1824); Loudon, Ard, e¢ Frut. Brit. iv. 2487 
(1838). 
Abies religiosa, Hooker and Arnott, Bot. Voy. Beechey, 160 (1841). (Not Lindley.) 
Schubertia sempervirens, Spach, Hist. Vég. xi. 353 (1842). 
A tree attaining 340 feet in height, with a slightly tapering and irregularly 
lobed trunk, occasionally 50 to 75 feet in girth above the enlarged and buttressed 
base. Bark six to twelve inches thick, divided into rounded ridges two or three 
feet in width, separating on the surface into long narrow fibrous scales, which on 
falling display the reddish-brown soft spongy fibro-cellular middle bark. Young 
trees pyramidal, with slender branches to near the base. Older trees in the 
forest with stems clean to 75 or 100 feet, the stout horizontal branches above 
forming an irregular narrow crown. Branchlets slender, green in the first year, 
gradually becoming afterwards brownish with a thin scaly bark, spreading in two 
ranks more or less in one plane. Buds solitary, both terminal and in the axils of 
two or three of the uppermost leaves, surrounded by loosely imbricated ovate acute 
scales, which remain persistent, dry, and brown at the base of the branchlets. 
Leaves of two kinds: (1) on normal lateral branchlets, spreading in one plane 
in two ranks by a twist on their bases, } to ? inch long, linear or lanceolate, ending 
in short cartilaginous points, slightly thickened on the revolute margins, narrowed 
at the base, where they become decurrent on the branchlets; upper surface dark 
green, with a median furrow; lower surface with a green midrib and two conspicuous 
whitish stomatic bands: (2) on leading branchlets, radially arranged in several 
ranks, appressed or spreading, about } inch long, ovate or ovate-oblong, with 
incurved cartilaginous points; upper surface concave with a prominent green 
midrib and two whitish stomatic bands; lower surface rounded, indistinctly 
stomatiferous. Lateral branchlets with leaves of the latter kind may exceptionally 
occur on any part of the tree, and usually cover entire branches at the summit of 
