the full-sized tree. The young, flourishing, fruit-bearing plants, 
from a foot to a foot and a half high, vary remarkably in 
appearance, the younger and even cone-bearing ones having the 
leaves very patent and lax, a second form having them mode- 
rately lax and patent, while a third form (and of this kind are the 
dried specimens sent home by Mr. Lobb) have the /eaves almost 
erect, and closely imbricated, and shorter than the other kinds. 
In all cases the /eaves are quaternate, decurrent, so as to give 
a furrowed character to the branchlets, oblong or ovate, dark 
green, concave above, keeled beneath, and on each side the 
keel or midrib having a pale glaucous depressed line, less con- 
spicuous and shorter in the more imbricated variety. The male 
flowers we have not seen. The nature of the cones, or strobil, 
will be best understood by our figures.—The genus is most 
allied to Thuiopsis of Siebold and Zuccarini; but it has only six 
scales to the cone, three of them seed-bearing, and each scale: 
including only three seeds. The foliage is extremely different 
from Thuja and Thuiopsis, uniform and spreading on all sides in 
Fitz-Roya. W. J. H. 
Curt. The absence of any extensive breadth of land in the _ 
high latitudes of the southern hemisphere, readily accounts for 
the paucity of large trees sufficiently hardy to thrive in the open 
air of this country. Certain species of Hucalyptus and Acacia 
from Van Diemen’s Land, and a few shrubs from New Zealand 
and Chili, endure our ordinary winters and continue to flourish 
for a time, the Hucalypti even showing fair prospect of 
becoming stately trees; but a winter more than commonly severe 
proves fatal to them. Even the Araucaria imbricata does not 
always sustain without injury the cold of some of our winters. 
But as Fitz-Roya'is found much farther south than the Araucaria 
and ascends to the limit of perpetual snow, we may reasonably 
hope to find it bear with impunity the lowest degree of cold to 
which it will be subject in this climate. J. S. 
Fig. 1. Branch of the usual appearance in the dried specimens sent home. 
2. Leaves of the same. 3. Branch with leaves moderately patent. 4. Co- 
niferous branch from Mr. Veitch’s nursery. 5. Leaves of the same. 6. Stro- 
bilus, or cone. 7. The same, the three lower empty scales and one of the upper 
ones, and one of the three small terminal scales or tubercles, being removed. 8. 
A scale separated from the cone with its three seeds. 9. Seed. 10. The three 
small terminal tubercles :—all but figures 1, 2, 3, 4, more or less magnified. 
