. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 235 species is G. sinensis, Henry (G. heteropJnjUa, Endl. Taxodium heterophyllum, Brongn.)- A small tree with dimorphic deciduous leaves linear and arranged in 3 ranks on sterile branches, imbricate and scale-like on fertile ones: cones pyriform, about ^i inch long. Southeastern China.—Introduced to Great Britain in 1804, but apparently unknown in this country. 13. SEQUOIA, Endl. Large evergreen
. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 235 species is G. sinensis, Henry (G. heteropJnjUa, Endl. Taxodium heterophyllum, Brongn.)- A small tree with dimorphic deciduous leaves linear and arranged in 3 ranks on sterile branches, imbricate and scale-like on fertile ones: cones pyriform, about ^i inch long. Southeastern China.—Introduced to Great Britain in 1804, but apparently unknown in this country. 13. SEQUOIA, Endl. Large evergreen trees with thick, red, fibrous and deeply grooved bark; heartwood dark red, soft, durable, straight-grained; sapwood thin and nearly white: leaves persistent, alternate, linear or awl-shaped or scale-like, often dimorphic: flowers monoecious; staminate catkins axillary and terminal, each of the numerous spirally arranged stamens bearing 2-5 pollen-sacs; fertile catkins terminal, com- posed of many spirally arranged scales, each with 4-7 ovules at base: cone woody, persis- tent, the divergent scales widened at summit which is rhomboidal, wrinkled, and with depressed center; seeds flattened, winged; cotyledons 4-6. (Named after Sequoyah, a Cherokee half-breed of Georgia, originator of the Cherokee alphabet; about 1770-1843.) —Two species in western North America. A. Leaves mostly spreading in 2 ranks: buds scaly 1. ~ A.\. Leaves appressed or slightly spreading, not 2-ranked: buds naked 2. S. gigantca 1. S. sempervirens, Endl. Redwood. Fig. 56 and Plate XXIII. Tree 100 to 340 feet high, with trunk 10-25 feet in diameter and often clear of limbs for 100 feet in mature specimens, the narrow crown with horizontal or downward-sweeping branches; bark dark brown, 6-12 inches thick, divided into rounded ridges covered with long and narrow fibrous scales, in falling disclosing the light cinnamon- red inner bark: leaves linear, mostly ) inch long, 1-13^ lines wide, spreading in flat sp
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