CXX1V PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Excrescence from Stem of 
1 Sequoia sempeeyieens.” 
bone, and hairs under 
the microscope; the 
cells and vessels were 
distinct in the wood, and 
the lacunas with their 
canaliculi in the bone. 
Some of the hairs be¬ 
longed to rodents, 
others were unknown. 
From the same breccia 
Mr. Smith exhibited a 
broken fossil lateral- 
incisor human milk- 
tooth, belonging to a 
subject of about seven 
years of age. 
Excrescence from Stem 
of Sequoia sempervirens. 
—Dr. Masters showed 
from Mr. Sim, of Foot’s 
Cray, some huge woody 
dilatations of the lower 
part of the stem of this 
plant, regarding which 
the following letter was 
read: — “The Sequoia 
sempervirens sent were, I 
find, planted as cuttings 
in the autumn of 1867. 
I have had a further 
batch of them lifted, 
and find that there are 
some straight well- 
formed trees similarly 
malformed at the root. 
It appears that about 
half of the batch, 
including well-formed 
trees, are in like condi¬ 
tion. Some of the tallest 
