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Sequoia heerii, Lesq 



Bib: U.S. G-eol. Surv. Terr., 1871, 290: Tert. Fl., 1878, 77: Cat. Gret. aiul Tert. PL, 217. 



Sequoia heerii is abundantly represented in the Tertiary formation of Canada, and its 

 occurrence at Quilchena, and the Horsefly and Trauquille rivers, would seem to imply its 

 very general distribution throughout the Tertiary beds. Only the foliage is known with 

 certainty, but in the material from the Tulameen river some of the specimens were preserved 

 in a very perfect manner (tigure 32). 



Fiii. 32. Sequoia hcwii, Le.stj. 

 Leave.s fi-on\ Tulaniecii Ri\(n-. .\ l/l. 



The Green River group of Sage creek, Montana, is the only locality recorded for the 

 United States, from which it v^'ould seem probable that the species represents a northern type. 



Sequoin Jangsdorjn, (Brongn.) U 



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Bib 



Trans. R.S.C., VIII, 1890, 80, f. 8 ; VIII, 1902, iv, 68 ; VII, 1889 ; IX, 1903, 33: 

 Geol. Surv. Can., 1877-78, 186 B ; 1887; 1875-76; 1888-89; VII, 1904, 36, 37 G : 

 Cret. and Tert. Fl., VIII, 138, 223, 240 : Tert. F1.,A7'II, 1878, 76: Fl. Tert. Ilelv., 1, 54. 



Sequoia lamjsdorlii is the most widely distributed and most abundant species of Sequoia 

 in North America. Lesquereux has made known its occurrence in the ^^tiocene of the John 

 Day valley, Oregon ; the Bad Lands of Dakota and Corrall Hollow, California ; Black Battes, 

 Wyoming, and the Green River group of Florissant, Colorado. 



The earliest Canadian record is that of Sir William Dawson in 1875, who obtained it from 

 the Blackwater river, British Columbia. Since then he has obtained it from Nine-mile creek 

 on the Similkameen river; the Red Deer, Finlay and Omineca rivers. In all of these 

 cases the tree was represented by foliage, bat in 1888 he notes the occurrence of wood at the 

 Bear river, Mackenzie basin, and regards it as the same as that originally determined by 

 Schroeter to be a species of Sequoia. 



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