JANUARY. 



23 



present illustration, from a tree now growing in the Pinetum at that 

 place, and which is supposed to be the finest specimen in Europe. 



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The genus Araucaria, to which our subject belongs, includes five 

 other species: four of them natives of the Australian group of islands, 



