COXTRIBUTIOKS TO THE UISTORT OP CERTAIJS^ CO^^rFERS. 169 



ContributioDs to the History of certain Species of Conifers. 



By Maxwell T. MAsxiRS, M.D., F.E.S., F.L.S. 



[Eead 21st January, 188G.] ' 



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(Plates II. X.) 



The following notes are put together with a view of supplying 

 additional information concerniug various species of Coniferae 

 whose history has been imperfectly known or misunderstood. 

 In compiling them I have availed myself of the resources of 

 London Museums and Herbaria, of communications from Sir 

 Joseph Hooker, Prof. Sargent, Mr. Syme, the late Dr. Engelmann, 

 my lamented friend Andrew Murray, and other botani.sts. I 

 have also specially studied during the last few years the mode of 



growth as well as very numerous fresh specimens of foliage and 

 cones observed in or obtained from the Eoyal G-ardeiis, Kew, 

 from various nurseries and private establishments in this country, 

 on the continent, and in the ITnited States. To Mr. Nicholson 

 and Mr. J. W*. Reed I am also under great obligations for 

 numerous preparations illustrative of leaf-auatomy. The obser- 

 vatiojis founded on these materials will supply the basis for a 

 communication on the general morphology of the Order, which I 

 hope to lay before the Society on a future occasion. 



The present notes refer almost exclusively to species of which 

 I have been enabled to examine living examples in cultivation as 

 well as dried specimens, and of which the nomenclature has 

 from various causes become very involved. Only those references 

 specially important for the present purpose are here cited, and 

 no attempt has been made to give full bibliographical references 

 or complete lists of synonyms. These have been, for the most 

 part, frequently published in standard works and monographs 



that are easily accessible, and to which these notes are intended, 

 so far as they go, to be complementary. 



The accompanying illustrations are reproduced from the pages 

 of the * Gardeners' Chronicle,' and have been selected either for 

 their intrinsic interest or because no other representation of 

 the species has hitherto been published in a generally available 

 form. The drawings have been executed, for the most part, by 

 Mr. "Worthington Smith, some from native, others from cultivated 

 specimens. 



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