Cryptomeria 
jiponica 
174 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
CONIFER. 
CUPRESSINE. 
When half grown they are nearly globular, of 
a glaucous green colour, bristled with the promi- - 
nent points of the bracts. The ripe cones are 
hardly larger than filberts, of a shape between 
spherical and conical, dull brown in colour, having 
something of a prickly or ragged appearance* 
from the projecting points of the scales and 
bracts: the scales are peltate and woody, like 
those of a cypress-cone, but the dilated disk of 
each of them runs out at its upper edge ame 
a variable number (usually three), of sharp-pointed 
rigid, almost prickle-like teeth; and each scale 
is also crested in the centre with the prominent 
recurved point of its bract; the bracts becoming 
in the ripe cone, firmly incorporated for the 
greatest part of their length with the scales which 
are auxiliary to them. 
I observe that in the Cryptomeria, the shoot 
is very frequently continued, in its ordinary leafy 
state, beyond the apex of the cone, as if it had 
grown through the cone; this extension of the 
shoot grows often to the length of some inches, 
and even in some cases bears male catkins. A 
similar prolongation of the axis of the cone is not 
very unfrequently seen in the common Larch; but 
in no other conifer have I observed it to be so 
* But not like what is represented in the plate accompanying Don's 
Paper in the Linnean Transactions, which does not give at all a correct 
idea of the cones, at least as they are seen in Cultivation. 
