This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...2. Sequoia Sempervirens Endl. Figs. 66, 67, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19. Leaves linear, spreading right and left so as to form flat sprays, J4 to 1J4 (mostly l/2 to J4) inches long and 1 to 1J4 lines wide, or in the top of adult trees with short linear acuminate leaves 3 to 5 lines long, such branchlets ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...2. Sequoia Sempervirens Endl. Figs. 66, 67, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19. Leaves linear, spreading right and left so as to form flat sprays, J4 to 1J4 (mostly l/2 to J4) inches long and 1 to 1J4 lines wide, or in the top of adult trees with short linear acuminate leaves 3 to 5 lines long, such branchlets strikingly suggestive of those of the Big Tree; cones oval, reddish brown, $ to 1/t, inches long and fy$ to 7/& inch thick, borne in clusters on the ends of branchlets mostly in the top of the tree, maturing in first autumn; scales 14 to 24; seeds narrowly margined, elliptic in outline, 2 lines long; seed-leaves usually 2. Redwood is a tall and massive forest tree 100 to 340 feet in height with a rather narrow crown, the branches horizontal or sweeping downward, especially the lower ones. The trunk is 2 to 16 feet in diameter and protected by a red fibrous bark J4 to 1 foot in thickness. The foliage is reddish brown. Sequoia sempervirens inhabits mountain slopes and valleys facing the sea and situated in the summer fog belt, and also ranges inland where it grows on protected slopes, canon sides or valley floors. Geographically it is distributed from southwestern Oregon south to the Santa Lucia Mountains, embracing an area 450 miles long and 1 to 40 miles wide. The main body occurs in a well-defined belt which begins in Del Xorte County and extends southward through Humboldt and Mendocino counties to southern Sonoma near Freestone, with a transverse break in the belt in southern Humboldt. South of Sonoma County the Redwood occurs only in detached and irregular bodies as follows: Olema to Mt. Tamalpais and San Rafael in Marin County; Redwood Peak, Redwood Canon and San Leandro Canon in the Oakland Hills; Santa Cruz Mountains on both slopes from...
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Good w 1920s bookplate, just a few handwritten notes else unmarked, tape-reinforced gutters. Second Edition. A descriptive account of the botany of California trees. Solid mostly clean copy of HB 1st. 6 x 8, 228 pp, indexes, glossary, b/w photos & dwgs.
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