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CALIFORNIA.— SUPPLEMENT. 



[ Conifera. 



Ord. LIX. CONIFERS. Juss. 



1. Taxodium sempervirens. Lamb. Pin. t. 643? Hook. Ic. PL ined. — Abies religiosa. 

 sup): p. 184 (an Cham, et Schlect?) 



Of this we have seen no flowers nor fruit, and the leaves are nearly twice the length of those figured in Mr 

 Lambert's work, shining on the upper side as in Podocarpus, and glaucous underneath. The tips of the 

 branches exhibit buds formed of imbricated membranaceous concave shining scales, which resemble the scales 

 at the base of the galbule in Lambert's description and figure quoted. Our plant is obviously what Douglas 

 alludes to in his Journal (Comp. Bot. Mag. vol. II. p. 150.) in the following words : — " But the great beauty 

 of the Californian vegetation is a species of Taxodium, which gives the mountains a most peculiar, I was 

 almost going to say awful, appearance, — something which plainly tells that we are not in Europe. I have 

 never seen the Taxodium Nootkatense of Nee, except some specimens in the Lambertian herbarium, and 

 have no work to refer to ; but from recollection, I should say that the present species is distinct from it. I 

 have repeatedly measured specimens of this tree 270 feet long, and 32 feet round at three feet above the 

 ground. Some few I saw upwards of 300 feet high, but none in which the thickness was greater than those 

 I have instanced." 



1. Pinus Sine lair ii ; foliis ternis acicularibus elongatis gracilibus supra canaliculatis 

 dorso convexis margine asperis, strobilis basi obliquis pedalibus oblongis, squamis elongatis 

 cuneatis, apicibus crassis elevato-tetragonis centro tuberculo spinuloso uncinate* instructis. 

 (Tab. XCIII.) 



This covers the hills from Monterrey to Carmelo and to Punta Pinos. (Dr Sinclair of H. M. S. Sulphur.) 

 It is probably the same as was observed by Mr Collie, and supposed by him to be Pinus rujida, Mill, {vide 

 supra, p. 160.) The ternate or occasionally binate leaves are from three to four inches long, rigid and sharp. 

 The solitary cone we possess is in an old state, the seeds having fallen out, and the scales spreading ; it is 

 twelve inches long, and five at its greatest breadth near the base. The scales are from two to three inches 

 long, three-quarters of an inch broad, cuneate, hard and coriaceous, the apex much thickened, and forming a 

 short four-sided pyramid with a short reflexed sharp rigid point. As a species it approaches, in the form of 

 cone and scales, to P. Montezumce, Lam. Pin, t. 22 : — but the leaves are quite different. It may possibly 

 be the Pinus Californiana " Lois, in the N. Duhamel, 5, p. 243," and Loud. Arboret. Brit. p. 2268": — 

 but all the description we can find of that tree, is simply that its leaves are in twos or threes, and that the 

 cones are longer than the leaves. To this Loudon adduces as a synonym the P. Monterey ensis, Godefroy 

 and Hort. Society's Gard. of which, however, almost nothing is known. 



Tab. XCIII. The base and apex only of the cone are here represented, the whole being much too large 

 for the plate. Fig. 1. Scale from the cone : — nat. size. 



2. P. radiata (Don.); foliis ternis? strobilis ina?quilateri-ovatis, squamis cuneatis crassis 

 apice dilatatis late rhomboideis hemispheericis cenlro depressis cum mucronulo, inferiori- 

 bus hinc triplo majoribus. — Don, in Lin. Soc. Trans. XVII. p. 442. "Lamb. Pin. t. 86." 

 Loud. Arboret. Brit. p. 2270,/. 2182. 



California ; Beecliy. Dr Coulter. 



We omitted this in our former account of the Californian plants, as we were acquainted only with a single 

 cone, but feel no doubt in referring it as above ; Dr Coulter found it along the sea-shore at Monterrey ; and 



