1913. There are specimens between thirty and forty 

 feet high at Strete Ralegh and Coldrenick. At Kew the 

 species is very slow growing. A plant in the Taxad 

 collection, although well furnished and to all appearance 

 quite healthy, is only some four feet high, though it is 

 now over thirty years old. It is the survivor of three 

 plants once growing in close proximity, of which the two 

 others were killed by the great frosts of February, 1895, 

 when the thermometer fell nearly to zero F. on three 

 successive nights. The survivor has never been in the 

 least affected by frost since then. Cuttings of nearly 

 ripe wood strike root quite freely if placed in a mildly 

 heated frame and kept close. It thrives well in loamy 

 moist soil, but like most Chilean trees and shrubs will no 

 doubt succeed equally well in peat. The genus Saxe- 

 gothaea has recently been the subject of morphological 

 study by Mr. Stiles, Mr. R. B. Thomson, Miss M. S. 

 Young and others, and the opinion appears to be 

 generally held that it forms a connecting link between 

 the Podocarpeae and the Araucarieae, though a member of 

 the former rather than of the latter group. Miss Young 

 has called attention to the striking development of the 

 nucellar tissue which protrudes through the micropyle 

 where it expands to form a stigma-like knob. She also 

 points out that m its early stages the ovule is perpen- 

 rS% ? + SCale L and ° nl y becomes inverted as the 

 deviln^ 7 g /^ th - A Similar ' but less conspicuous 

 rar^Tf- ° f ^ ^ CelIar tissue occu ™ in the Aran- 

 Th7™ A T P y actl ^ aU 7 ™known among Angiosperms. 

 Jar IZ % r l 7 al ¥ d genuS is the Tatmanian Micro- 



™;^ ? , V ? aCt ° f con siderable interest from a 

 geographical standpoint. 



twSf 2Tr?l~i Tree J°~*° ft - hi S h or at «me8 a shrub; 

 teX vJ n ' ^ When y0Un g P a ^-green, when older^ 

 muoSi T , - Le T S P ersisti "S for 4-6 years, linear, 

 E^wi~fc m ' ? ng? 4~i in ' wide > coriaceous, dark 

 ferous w\ ' Tf 1 W [ th two broad > white s tomati- 

 ife^ /^ her P romi ^nt on both sides, 

 most Ztl v?- Mae Cmes in the axils oi the upper- 



aTufe tosc^r^t^ to 1 , ^ FZ ^ ™1 

 aK,0 » i t m. long, brown. Female cones at 



