Sequoia 699 
164 feet wide, 123 feet long, and 5 inches thick. The tree from which this extra- 
ordinary plank was cut was felled in Humboldt County, and was said to be 300 feet 
in height by 35 feet in diameter. Planks of 5 feet in width are imported, and I 
have myself purchased boards 4 feet in width absolutely free from knots and defects. 
In England this wood is chiefly used for the inside linings of furniture, and it is 
said to be one of the finest woods in the world for large signboards, as it maintains 
a remarkable consistency of shape under the most trying conditions of climate and 
exposure. The value in Liverpool in 1907 was from 2s. 2d. to 2s. 6d. per cubic foot, 
a price which cannot be said to encourage shipments that have to pay the cost of 
so long a sea carriage. The wood is usually of slow growth, and the annual rings 
are from thirty to fifty to the inch. The cells are so large that they can be seen by 
unaided vision. Resin ducts are almost entirely absent in both species of Sequoia 
but have been found by Jeffrey’ in the flowering shoot and in the first annual ring 
of vigorous branches of adult S. gigantea, and in the wood of the shoot and 
root of redwood as the result of injury. (ely lace) 
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SEQUOIA GIGANTEA, Wettuinctonia, Bic TREE 
Sequoia gigantea, Decaisne, Bull. Bot. Soc. France, i. 70 (1854), and Rev. Hort. 1855, p. 9, f. 1 
(not Endlicher) ; Masters, Gard. Chron. xix. 556, f. 85 (1896); Sargent, Bot. Gazefte, xliv. 226 
(1907). 
Sequoia Wellingtonia, Seemann, Bonplandia, iii. 27 (1855); Lawson, Pinet Brit. ili. 299, tt. 37, 
51, 53 (1884); Sargent, Sz/va WV. Amer. x. 145, t. 536 (1896), and Zrees V. Amer. 69 (1905) ; 
Kent, Veitch’s Man. Conifera, 27.4 (1900). 
Sequoia Washingtoniana, Sudworth, Check List Forest Trees, U.S. 28 (1898). 
Wellingtonia gigantea, Lindley, Gard. Chron. 1853, pp. 820, 823; W. J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 
4777; 4778 (1854). 
Taxodium Washingtonianum, Winslow, Calif. Farmer, 1854, ex Hooker, Kew Journ, vii. 29 (1855). 
Taxodium giganteum, Kellogg and Behr, Proc. Cal. Acad. i. 151 (1855). 
Washingtonia Californica, Winslow, /oc. cit. 
A tree attaining 320 feet in height, with a tapering stem, occasionally go feet 
in girth above the much enlarged and buttressed base. Young trees narrowly 
pyramidal. Old trees free of branches to 100 or 150 feet, with an irregular crown 
of short thickened branches. Trunk fluted with broad, low, rounded ridges; bark 
1 to 2 feet thick divided into lobes 4 to 5 feet wide, corresponding to those of the 
trunk, separating into loose reddish fibrous scales, which expose the spongy middle 
bark. Branchlets pendulous, not distichously arranged but in dense masses, green 
in the first year, afterwards gradually becoming brownish with a thin scaly bark. 
Buds minute, without scales. 
Leaves persistent for four years, arranged on the branchlets in approximately 
three ranks; on the main axes ovate acuminate, up to 4 inch long; on the lateral 
axes lanceolate, acute, $ to + inch long; appressed and decurrent at the base, free 
1 Mem. Boston Soc. Nat, Hist. v. 441 (1903). 
2 The tree was first described by Lindley, who called it Wel/ingtonia gigantea, Wellingtonia cannot be maintained as a 
distinct genus. Seguota gigantea is the correct name, according to the rules of botanical nomenclature promulgated by the 
Vienna Congress of 1905, and is now adopted by Sargent. 
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