. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean . tree which I have mentioned,as distinguishing it from the yews of Europe and the eastern States. Torreya Californica. The Californian nutmeg Californica. Torr. N. Y. Jour. PJiam. 3, p. Myristica, Hook, Bot. Mag. t. did not meet with the nutmeg tree- in California, though it occurs in the coast moun-tains, very near some localities which we visited. The specimens which have come into myhands were collected by other pe
. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean . tree which I have mentioned,as distinguishing it from the yews of Europe and the eastern States. Torreya Californica. The Californian nutmeg Californica. Torr. N. Y. Jour. PJiam. 3, p. Myristica, Hook, Bot. Mag. t. did not meet with the nutmeg tree- in California, though it occurs in the coast moun-tains, very near some localities which we visited. The specimens which have come into myhands were collected by other persons, to whom I am indebted for whatever knowledge I haveof its habit and distribution. It is said to be found in many localities in the coast mountains, both north and south of San 62 BOTANY. Francisco, but to be everywbere rather a rare tree. It attains but a moderate size, 50—75feet in height, and has somewbat the aspect of a Taxodium, or yew, to the foliage of which itsleaves have a marked resemblance. The fruit, irom its texture and appearance, has beencompared to a nutmeg, but is too strongly charged with turpentine to be used as a Fig. 27. A branch, with leaves and fruit of T. Californica, natural size. Very full analyses of its botanical characters are given by Nuttall and Sir W. Hooker. It issaid to form a graceful and handsome tree, and, as its nuts have been made to germinate by thehorticulturists of New York, we may soon expect to see it introduced into general cultivation. Cupressus Nutkatensis. The Nootka cypress. C. Nctkatensi8, Lamb. Pinus, No. 60. C. Nutkatensis. Hook. Flor. Bor. Amer. 2, p. 165. Thuja excelsa, Bong. Veget. de Silcha, p. 46. Description.—A tree of moderate size ; branches sub-erect, tetragonal; leaves ovate acuminate,imbricate in four rows without tubercles ; galbules as large as peas, or larger, terminatingthe smaller branches ; scales umbonate, srrootli, or radiately striate. The only locality in which we met with thi
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