ON THE HUON PINE, &c. 149 
which I have seen was in the bed of the Pine River, down 
the course of which it had been washed, and, grounding, 
had formed the nucleus of a small island ; it was about 
15 feet long, and though prostrate quite alive, having shot 
up several erect branches, to the height of 8 or 10 feet, 
covered with a lively green foliage, and bearing abundance 
of fruit. Mr. Gunn describes it as growing at Lake St. 
Clair to the height of 25-30 feet, with trunks 18 inches to 
2 feet in diameter ; one very old one, hollow in the centre; 
measured 15 feet round, at 34 feet from the ground, from 
whence it tapered rapidly upwards. 
3. A. laxifolia, Hook. Ic. Plant. 1. 573. | 
Has. Tasmania, Falls of the Meander River, Gunn, (n. 
369?) qe | 
Some doubt was expressed in the * Icones Plantarum" of- 
the validity of this species, neither the flowers nor fruit - 
being known. Another specimen, with cones, received from 
Mr. Gunn, seems to establish its claims to specific distinc- 
tion. The cones are nearly the size of those of A. selagi- 
noides, with the seeds smaller and of a different form, being 
(including the wings) broadly oblong, their sides parallel, and 
the base and apex emarginate; the wings are thick, and 
formed of two membranes inclosing a spongy substance; as 
in A. cupressoides, but they are broader above than in that 
_ plant ; the embryo is altogether like that of the two former. — 
The leaves are as represented in the “/cones Plantarum,” 
in fewer series, shorter, smaller, and more lax than in A. e 
ginoides. 
| 3. Microcacurys, Nov. gen. . 
Flores in ramis diversis monoici. Masc. Amenta termi- | 
nalia,- ovata. Sguame  antherifere unguiculate, peltatæ. — 
| Antherarum thece 2, divaricatæ, globose. Pollen trigonum, 
trinucleatum. Fam. Amenta decurva v. cernua; oblong: 
 Squame laxe imbricatæ, patentes, ovate, concave, na 
| lares) Ovula ad basin squamarum solitaria. ^ S/rob 
€ squamis divaricatis foliis subconformibus sed 
