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Sequoia "Wellingtonia, Seem.* {Wellingtonia gigantea, Lindl.) 
Mammoth Ties. Californio, up to 5000 feet above the sea. This, the 
biggest of all trees, attains astern of 320 feet in length and 112 feet in 
circumference, the oldest trees being estimated at 1100 years; the total 
height of a tree will occasionally be 450 feet; a stem broken at 800 feet 
had yot a diameter of 18 feet. The wood is soft and white when felled, 
afterwards it turns red. 
Taxodium distiehum, Rich.* a 
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 mioceno 
formation of many parts of Europe. The wood is tine-grained, bard 
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 Chapultepec 
nud 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, heavy 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. 
Taxua brevifolia, Nuttall. (T. Lindlcyana, Laws.) 
N. W. America. Western Yew. A stately tree, 76 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 tougli and resinous, 
and well fit for building, especially for water work. The shoots and 
also an essential oil of this tree aro 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 Californica, Torr. (T. myrislica, Hooker.) 
In California. Tree 80 feet high. 
Torroya grandis. Fortune. 
China. A tree 60 feet high, with an umbrella-shaped crown; it pro¬ 
duces good timber. 
Torreya, nucifera, 8. and Z. (Caryotaxus nucifera, Zucc.) 
Japan. Height of tree about 30 feet. From the nuts the Japanese 
press an oil, used as an article of food. 
