1854,  14  &  t.— Naudin  in  Rev.  Hort.  1854,  116.— Fl.  des  Serres,  ix,  93  &  t.  903  &  t.— Plor.  Cabinet,  1854,  121  &  t.—
Bigelow  in  Pacific  R.  R.  Rep.  iv,  22.— Gordon,  Pinetum,  330 ;  Suppl.  106 ;  2  ed.  415. — Murray  in  Edinburgh  New  Phil.
Jour,  new  ser,  xi,  205,  t.  3-9  (Trans.  Bot.  Soc.  Edinburgh,  vi.  330,  t.  6,  f.  8,  9). — Henkel  &  Hochstetter,  Nadelhijlz.
222.— Carrifere,  Trait.  Conif.  2  ed.  217.— Veitoh,  Manual  Conif  415.
Wellingtonia  Californica,  "Winslow  iu  California  Farmer,  September,  1854.— Hooker,  Jour.  Bot.  &  Kew  Misc.  vii,  26.
Taxodium  Washingtonianum,  Winslow  in  California  Farmer,  September,  1854.
Taxodium  giganteum,  Kellogg  &,  Behr  in  Proc.  California  Acad.  i.  51.
8.  Wellingtonia,  Seemannin  Bonplandia,  ii,238;  iii,  27;  vi,343;  Ann.  &  Mag.  Nat.  Hist.  3  ser.  March,  1859,  161.— Lawson,
Pinetum  Brit,  iii,  299,  t.  37, 51, 53,  f  1-37.
Gigantabies  Wellingtonia,  Nelson,  PinaeesB,  79.
BIG  TREE.
California,  western  slopes  of  the  Sierra  l^evadas  from  Placer  county  (Calaveras  Grove)  south  to  Deer  creek  on
the  southern  borders  of  Tulare  county.  \

The  largest  tree  of  the  American  forest,  76  to  119  meters  in  height,  with  a  trunk  6  to  11  meters  in  diameter;
valleys  and  moist  swales  or  hollows  between  4,000  and  6,000  feet  elevation,  growing  in  small,  isolated  groves,
except  toward  its  southern  limits,  here  mixed  with  the  sugar  pine  and  red  and  white  firs,  covering  large  tracts,
often  several  hundred  acres  in  extent.
