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closely placed in two rows, nearly or quite opposite, rounded 

 at the base, and somewhat recurved at the extremity, linear, 

 frequently falcate, stiff, of a leathery texture, on very short 

 foot-stalks, twistedy and decurrent at the base, and tapering to a 

 long acute spiny point at the' apex, somewhat lanceolate ; from 

 one to one inch and three-quarters long, and one line and a half 

 broad, of a light green, glossy, and convex on the upper surface, 

 but without any nerve along the middle, while the under one is 

 slightly concave near the edges, pale glaucous gray, andmai-ked 

 on each side of the mid-rib with two reddish narrow sunken 

 bands. , Branches numerous, mostly in whorls, spreading, 

 smooth, and two or three forked at each division. Branchlets 

 somewhat two-rowed, and horizontal. Male catkins linear; 

 female flowers without foot-stalks, and erect. Fruit, when ripe, 

 oval, a little pointed, nearly as large as an ordinary walnut, 

 with the external coat fleshy or rather leathery, and covering 

 the whole surface of the seed, except a minute perforation at 

 the top. Seed solitary, and when deprived of its succulent 

 external covering, very much resembling a large acorn, with a 

 beautiful ruminated albumen, resembling the inside of a nut- 

 meg and covered with a hard bony shell. Seed-leaves in 

 twos. 



A handsome pyramidal-shaped evergreen tree, with numerous 

 spreading branches, growing from fortj' to fifty feet high, and 

 eighteen inches in diameter ; found in the middle and Northern 

 parts of Florida, growing abundantly about Aspalaga, on Galea- 

 rous Rocks, and along the banks of rivers near Flat Creek. The 

 whole plant has a strong and particularly disagreeable smell, 

 especially when bruised or burned, and is called by the Ameri- 

 cans " Stinking Cedar," and by the people in the country where 

 it grows, " wild nutmeg." 



Timber dense, close-grained, heavy, and of a reddish colour. 



It is not quite hardy in some parts. 



