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branchlets. Looking at them from these points of 
view, they seem to bear a nearer relationship with 
some other members of their band. 
The Cryptomerias are much in the same way of 
habit; the more elderly leaves, on the more elderly 
branches, seem to keep in a closer touch of general 
appearance with the younger generation than they 
do in the case of the Sequoias. They seem to assert 
themselves more successfully in competition with 
the rising sun of the latest production of leaf foliage, 
and to hold their own a little better among the 
younger upstarts. They also, which is rather an 
unusual trait in this clan, bear a certain outward 
resemblance to the Athrotaxis. Of the remainder 
of the Taxodinee the differences of appearance are 
still more pronounced. There is the swamp-loving 
Deciduous Cypress of deciduous habits, and the 
like-nothing-on-earth Sciadopitys Verticillata, the 
Umbrella Tree of Japan. This completes our list of 
this menagerie group, to which we will refer separ- 
ately. , 
SEQUOIA SEMPERVIRENS (TAXODINEZ).— 
Give me of your boughs, O Cedar, 
Of your strong and pliant branches 
My canoe to make more steady, 
Make more strong and firm beneath me. 
LoNGFELLOW. 
This is how Longfellow, in defiance of all decorum 
in the rules of botanical nomenclature, describes the 
finishing touches that Hiawatha contemplated putting 
on to the construction of his Birch-bark (Betula 
Papyrifera) canoe. Whether it was any hero-worship 
consequence of a great national poet’s utterance we 
cannot say, but the fact remains that to this day 
what books of all nations call Sequoias men of 
