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EVERGREEN TAXODIUM. 
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 repeatedly measured 
specimens of this tree 270 feet long, and 32 feet round at 
3 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.” 
Bald Cypress ( Taxodium distichum, Cupressus disticha. 
Willd.) Doctor G. Engelmann informs me that the most 
northern station in the west for this tree, is at the mouth of 
the Ohio, and between Mount Carmel and Vincennes on 
the Wabash. 
