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Sequoia Wellingtonia, Seem.* (Welling tonia giganlca, Lindl.) 



Mammoth Tree. California, ud to 5000 feet above the 8ca. This, the 

 biggest of all trees, attains astern of 320 feet in length and 112 feet in 

 circumference, the oldest trees being estimated at 1 10'» yearn ; the total 

 height of a tree will occasionally be 450 feet; a stem broken fit 800 feet 

 had yet a diameter of 18 feet. The wood is soft and white when felled, 

 afterwards it turns red. 



Taxodium distichum, Rich.* 



Virginian Swamp or Bald Cypress. In swampy places of North 

 America. A large and valuable tree, 100 feet high, with a stem circum- 

 ference of sometimes 40 feet, of rapid growth, with deciduous foliage 

 like that of the Larch and Ginkgo ; it is found fossil in the miocene 

 formation of many parts of Europe. The wood is fine-grained, hard 

 and durable ; it yields an essential oil and a superior kind of tur- 

 pentine. Useful for avenues on swampy margins of lakes or river 

 banks. 



Taxodium mucronatum, Ten. 



The famed Montezuma Cypress of Mexico, 120 feet high, with a trunk 

 44 feet in circumference ; it forms extensive forests between Chapultepcc 

 and Tescuco. 



Taxus baccata, L. 



Yew. Middle and South Europe and Asia, at 1000 to 4000 feet 

 . elevation. Generally a shrub, sometimes a tree 40 feet high, which 

 furnishes a yellow or brown wood, exceedingly tough, elastic and 

 durable, and much esteemed by turners. The tree is of very slow 

 growth, and reaches a great age, perhaps several thousand years ; some 

 ancient ones are known with a stem of fifty feet in girth. 



Taxus Drevifolia, Nuttall. (T. Lindleyana, Laws.) 



N. W. America. Western Yew. A stately tree, 75 feet high, with a 

 stem of 5 feet in circumference. The Indians use the wood for their 

 bows. 



Thuya gigantea, Nutt. 



N. W. America, on the banks of the Columbia River. The Yellow 

 Cypress of the colonists. A straight, graceful tree, 200 feet high, fur- 

 nishing a valuable building timber of a pale or light yellow color. 



Thuya occidentalis, L. 



N. America, particularly frequent in Canada. A fine tree, 70 feet high ; 

 the wood is reddish or yellowish, fine-grained, very tough and resinous, 

 and well fit for building, especially for water work. The shoots and 

 also an essential oil of this tree are used in medicine ; the bast can 

 be converted into ropes. 



Thuyopsis dolabrata, Sieb and Zucc. 



Japan. A majestic tree, furnishing an excellent hard timber of a red 

 color. 



Torreya Califomica, Torr. (T. myristica, Hooker.) 

 In California. Tree 80 feet high. 



Torreya grandis, Fortune. 



China. A tree 60 feet high, with an umbrella-shaped crown ; it pro- 

 duces good timber. 



Torreya uuoifera, S. and Z. (Canjotaxus nueifera, Zucc.) 



Japan. Height of tree about SO feet. From the nuts the Japanese 

 press an oil, used as an article of food. 



