. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 126 The Torreyas I. FLORIDA TORREYA —Tumion taxifoUum (Arnott) Greene Torreya taxifolia Amott This medium-sized, ill-scented, but beautiful tree, is confined to a narrow region bordering on the Appalachicola river in Gadsden county, Florida, occurring in limestone soil and in river-swamps, attaining a maximum height of i8 m. with a trunk diameter of 9 dm. It is also called Torrey tree, Stinking cedar, Stinking savin. Foet
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 126 The Torreyas I. FLORIDA TORREYA —Tumion taxifoUum (Arnott) Greene Torreya taxifolia Amott This medium-sized, ill-scented, but beautiful tree, is confined to a narrow region bordering on the Appalachicola river in Gadsden county, Florida, occurring in limestone soil and in river-swamps, attaining a maximum height of i8 m. with a trunk diameter of 9 dm. It is also called Torrey tree, Stinking cedar, Stinking savin. Foetid yew, and Savin. The trunk is short; the branches are in whorls, spreading and somewhat drooping, forming an open broad conic tree. The bark is about 12 mm. thick, broadly but shallowly fissured into low irregular ridges, which are covered with close thin scales, brown externally, yellowish in- ternally. The twigs are round, slender, shghtly hairy, bright green, grad- ually becoming dark yel- lowish red. The winter buds are ovoid, about 6 mm. long, pointed, their scales ovate, thickish, sharp-pointed and shin- ing. The leaves are linear, nearly straight, to cm. long, some- what narrowed at the hard sharp-pointed apex, rounded and short- stalked at the base, en- tire and slightly revolute on the margin, dark green and shining above, pale and faintly longitudinally grooved beneath. The staminate flowers are sub-globose, about 6 mm. long, their scales thick and stifif, keeled on the back, the lower pointed; the anthers are light yellow. The pistillate flower is broadly ovoid, 3 mm. long, narrowed at the apex, its ovule covered by a purple, pulpy coating and subtended by ovate or rounded scales. The fruit, which is rather sparingly pro- duced, ripens in summer, but persists until late autumn; it is globose-oblong or somewhat ovoid, 3 to 4 cm. long; the seed is light reddish brown. The wood is hard, strong, but rather brittle, close-grained, light yellow, and. Fig. 97.
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