ARBORETUM NOTES. 179 
CONIFERA.. 
TAXINEZ. 
SALISBURIA ADIANTIFOLIA. 
Loudon v. 4. 2094. 
Endlich. Syn. Conif. 237. 
One in the arboretum, planted by my father, in 
1825, is now (1872) high, and the circum- 
ference of the stem, 2 feet 3 inches at 3 feet from 
the ground. Another, planted, 1844. It is, here 
at least, a tree of extremely slow growth and it has 
never flowered with us. The finest tree of the 
kind that I remember to have seen in England, is 
in the garden of the Bishop’s palace at Wells: its 
trunk is about 4 feet round; the branches long 
and the lower ones somewhat drooping. M. 
Adolphe Brongniart told me, in 1857, that the 
Salisburia ripens fruit freely in the South of 
France, and he thought that it might even at 
Rams, but the very large and old tree in the 
Fardin des Plantes is a male, and of the female 
they have only young trees, which at that time 
had not flowered. Loudon does not accurately 
describe the leaves, as to their venation, which is 
the especial peculiarity of the plant. They 
resemble those of some Ferns (especially of the 
genus adiantum) not only in form, but most 
remarkably in veining; they have no midrib, and 
the veins are all equal and similar, radiating from 
the base of the leaf in a fan-like form, dividing 
M 2 
Salisburia 
adiantifolia 
