. 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. California Nutmeg 127 satiny; its specific gravity is about It is very durable in contact with the soil and is locally used for fence-posts; when cut down the stumps sprout freely, thereby preventing, in a measure, its extermination. It is partly hardy in the mid- dle and eastern States, but does not develop the beauty attained in its native haunts. It is most desirable that the small area in Florida inhabited by th
. 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. California Nutmeg 127 satiny; its specific gravity is about It is very durable in contact with the soil and is locally used for fence-posts; when cut down the stumps sprout freely, thereby preventing, in a measure, its extermination. It is partly hardy in the mid- dle and eastern States, but does not develop the beauty attained in its native haunts. It is most desirable that the small area in Florida inhabited by this tree and by the Florida yew, should become a reservation. 2. CALIFORNIA NUTMEG — Tumion califomicum (Torrey) Greene Torreya californica Torrey This tree is much larger than the Florida Torreya and has a more agreeable odor; it does not form forests, but occurs sparingly over a wide area in north-cen- tral California, especially along mountain streams, both in the coast ranges, and on the western side of the Sierra Nevada, from Butte county to Tulare county, at elevations of from 900 to 1500 meters, reaching a maximum height of 30 meters with a trunk diame- ter of meters in the north- -em part of its range. It is also called CaUfomia Torreya, California false nutmeg. Coast nutmeg. Yew, and Stinking ce- dar. The branches are in whorls, slender, spreading, or shghtly drooping, forming a magnifi- cent conic or round-topped tree. The bark is about i cm. thick, deeply an4 broadly furrowed into somewhat irregular ridges, covered with long rather loose scaly plates, brownish or yel- ^''=- 98-- California Nutmeg. low-brown. The twigs are slender, light green, soon becoming darker and finally red-brown; buds ovoid, 6 mm. long, sharp-pointed, their scales thick, ovate, sharp-pointed, reddish. The leaves are Unear, straight or slightly curved, 3 to 7 cm. long, tapering toward the sharp-pointed apex, abruptly narrowed at the base, entire and revolute on the margin, thick and firm,
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