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EVERGREEN TAXODIUM. 
Natural Order , Cupressin^e. (Richard.) Linncean Classi- 
fication , Monoecia Monadelphia. 
TAXODIUM semper virens, folUs perennantibus distichis linearibus 
acutis coriaceis glabris opacis. Lambert’s Pines, (ed. 2,) tab. 64. 
Loudon, Arboret. vol. 4, p. 2487, fig. 2340 and 2341. Hooker and 
Arnott, Bot. Beech. Suppl. p. 392. 
Condylocarpus. Salisbury. 
This remarkable species, which is said to be evergreen, 
was discovered by Mr. Menzies on the north-west coast of 
America in 1796, and immense trees of it were found by 
Dr. Coulter in 1836. 
The leaves are linear, acute, and distichous, coriaceous 
and smooth, opaque, and shining on both sides, keeled 
beneath, flat on the margin, half an inch to an inch long, 
half a line broad and decurrent on the branch. The gal- 
bulus (or fruit) is terminal, solitary, roundish, with short 
imbricated scales at the base, the scales trapezoidal, pel- 
tate, thick and woody; rough above, and radiately striated, 
depressed in the centre, terminating below in a thick 
angular pedicel. Seeds many to a single scale, angular 
and yellowish. Probably a different genus from Taxodium , 
as conjectured by Salisbury. 
It is thus alluded to by Douglas in the Companion to the 
Botanical Magazine, 2, p. 150. “But the great beauty of 
