T.  Myristica,  Hooker  f.  in  Bot.  Mag.  t.  4780.— Van  Houtte  in  Fl.  des  Serres,  ix,  175  &  t.— Carrifere,  Conif.  315;  2  ed.  727.—
Gordon,  Pinetum,  1  ed.  327.— Murray  in  Edinburgh  New  Phil.  Jour,  new  ser.  x,  7,  t.  3.— Veitch,  Manual  Conif.  311.
Garyotaxus  Myristica,  Henkel  &  Hochstetter,  Nadelholii,  368.
Fcetataxus  Myristica,  Nelson,  Pinacese,  168.
CALIFORNIA  NUTMEG.      STINKING  CEDAR.
California,  Mendocino  county,  and  along  the  -western  slope  of  the  Sierra  Nevadas  to  Tulare  county,  between
3,000  and  5,000  feet  elevation.
A  tree  15  to  22  meters  in  height,  with  "a  trunk  0.30  to  0.90  meter  in  diameter,  sending  up  from  the  stump  when
cut  many  vigorous  shoots ;  borders  of  streams,  in  moist  soil ;  rare.
Wood  light,  soft,  not  strong,  very  close-grained,  compact,  susceptible  of  a  fine  polish,  very  durable  in  contact
with  the  soil;  bands  of  small  summer  cells  broad,  not  conspicuous;  medullary  rnys  numerous,  obscure;  color,
clear  light  yellow,  the  thin  sap-wood  nearly  white;  specific  gravity,  0.4760;  ash,  1.34.
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347. — Pinus  Strobus,  Linnajus,

Spec.  1  ed.  1001 ;  Dii  Roi,  Harbk.  ii,  57.— Wangenheim,  Amer.  i,  1. 1,  f.  1.— Alton,  Hort.  Kew.  iii,  369 ;  2  ed.  v,  318.— Swartz,  Obs.  363.—
Moencb,  Meth.  364.— Miohaux,  Fl.  Bor.-Ara.  ii,  205.— Poiret  in  Lamarck,  Diet,  v,  341 ;  111.  iii,  369,  t.  780,  f.  2.— Lambert,  Finns,  1  ed.  t.
22;  2ed.  i,  27,  t.  35;  3ed.  i,  51,  t.  32.— Willdenow,  Spec,  iv, 501;  Enum.  939;  BerlBaumz.  213.— Persoon,  Syn.  ii, 579.— Desfontaines,  Hist.
