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silver. This buried wood is pale broT\-ii, close in texture, but easUy worked, and 

 pleasantly fragrant. Trees of this conifer, equalling in size these buried giants, 

 cannot be found in China to-day except as rare and isolated specimens associated 



with temples or shrines. 



A good figure of a branch and a cone of this tree, collected by James Cunning- 

 ham, is found in Plukenet, Opera IV. t, 351, fig. 1 (AmalL 1. fig. 1) (1705) under the 

 name of Abies major sinepsis, etc. 



Pictures of this tree will be found under Nos. 76, 209, 210, 211, 212, 311, 312, 

 337, 340, 373, 549, 0183 of the collection of Wilson's photographs and also in his 

 Vegetation of Western Chinaj Nos. 177-185. 



CRYPTOMERIA D. Don. 



Cryptomeria japonica D. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVIII. 166, t. 



13, fig. 1 (1841). — Hooker, Icon. VII. t. 668 (1844). — Siebold & 



Zucearini in Abh. Akad. Miinch. IV. pt. III. 234 {FL Jap. Fam. Nat. 



11. 110)- (1846). — Miquel in Ann. Mus. Ludg.-Bat. III. 168 (1867); 



Prol FL Jap. 332 (1867); in Siebold & Zucearini, Fl Jap. II. 43, t. 



124, 124*^ (1870). — Parlatore in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. II. 



438 (1868). — Debeaux in Act Soc. Linn. Bordeaux^ XXX. 109 {Fl 



Shangh. 57) (1875). — Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. I. 469 



(1875). — Masters in Jour. Linn. Soc. XVIII. 497 (1881); XXVL 



544 (1902); XXXVII. 413 (1906). — Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. 



Paris, s6r. 2, VII. 101 (PL David. I, 291) (1884), — Sargent in Garden 



& Forest, VI. 443, fig. 66 (1893); For. Fl. Jap. 74, t. 24 (1894). 



Pritzel in BoL Jahrb. XXIX. 218 (1900). — Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. 



For, Jap. L 24, t. 9, fig. 25-42 (1900). — Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. 



BoL Ital n. ser. XVIL 231 (1910); XVIII. 105 (1911). — Patschke 



in BoL Jahrb. XLVIII. 672 (1913). 



Cupressus japonica Linnaeus f., Suppl. ^21 (1781). — Thunberg, FL Jap. 

 265 (1784). 



Taxodium japonicum Brongniart in Ann. Sci. Nat. XXX. 183 (1833) ex- 



cludenda var. heterophylla . 



Cryptomeria Fortunei Otto & Dietrich in Allg. Gartenz. 1853, 234. 



lung 



35-^0 



have been planted a thousand years ago). Hupeh : *' Ou-tan-scian" 

 alt. 2050 m., August and September 1907, C. Silvestri (Nos. 105, 106). 

 Western Szech'uan: Kuan Hsien, cultivated in temple grounds, 

 alt. 900 m., October 1910 (No. 4077; tree 10-13 m. tall, 1-1.5 m. 

 girth); same locality, 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 3008). Yunnan: 

 Mengtze, alt. 2000 m., A, Henry (Nos. 9667, 9667^). 



