. Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc . Bot. Califor. II. .117. Garden and Forest, V. 541, figs. Beissner, Nadelliolzk. 160, with figs. Masters in .Journ. R. XIV. 71. Wellingtonia gigantea, Lindley in Gard. Chrou. 1853, p. 823. Hooker, Mag. tt. 4777, 4778. Caniere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 217. Gordon, II. 414. Eng. Wellingtonia, ^Manunoth Tree. Amer. Big Tree. Fr. Sequoia gigantes(|ne.
. Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc . Bot. Califor. II. .117. Garden and Forest, V. 541, figs. Beissner, Nadelliolzk. 160, with figs. Masters in .Journ. R. XIV. 71. Wellingtonia gigantea, Lindley in Gard. Chrou. 1853, p. 823. Hooker, Mag. tt. 4777, 4778. Caniere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 217. Gordon, II. 414. Eng. Wellingtonia, ^Manunoth Tree. Amer. Big Tree. Fr. Sequoia gigantes(| Rieseii Sequoia. Ital. Gigante della California. var.—pendula. Primary branches quite pendulous, sometimes hanging doAvn so close tothe trunk that the space occupied by the tree Avith its appendagesscarcely exceeds tAVO yards in diameter. This is the most markeddeviation from the common form yet observed. Other varieties are distinguished by horticulturists by names sufficientlyindicative of their character as argenfea, gJauca lyyramidalisj py^pmea,ranet/afa, etc. The Wellingtonia inhalnts the western slopes of the Sierra Xevada ofCalifornia on which it has a vertical rano-e of from 5,000 to 8,000 feet. Fig. 84. Cone of Sequoia Wellingtoniafrom the Calaveras Grove. 276 SEQUOIA \VELLIN(!TONIA. above sea level. Its uortlieni limit is near the o9tli parallel ofnorth latitude whence it spreads nieridionally in a narrow beltfor a distance of 2G0 miles to Deer Creek, just beyond the oGthparallel. In the northern part of this belt it occurs in isolatedgroves varying in extent from a few acres to three or four squaremiles, and standing from forty to sixty miles apart;* south of Kingsliiver for a distance of about fifty nules the Welling-tonia forms an almost continuous forest in placesnearly five miles wide, intercepted oidy Ijy the steep-walled, deep canons that intersect the (!)n the Sierra Nevada at this elevation is precipi-tated for nearly six months of theyear
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