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the colour of foliage, which is much lighter, being 

 in well-grown plants a greyish green or silvery hue. 

 The leaves are thickly produced, point forwards, 

 each I inch long, and marked with two silvery 

 lines beneath. One of the healthiest specimens I 

 have seen was growing in light moory soil, and in 

 a situation sheltered from cold winds. 



SCIADOPITYS, Siebold et Zuccarini 



THE UMBRELLA PINE 



Flowers monoecious; male spikes terminal; anther lobes, two. 



Cones solitary, elliptic or cylindrical, and obtuse at the ends. 



Scales and bracts united into a lobulated mass, leathery, 

 thin, and imbricated. 



Seeds arranged in seven to nine under each scale, two- 

 winged, with a leathery covering. 



Leaves twenty to thirty in a whorl, of peculiar structure. 



This genus is remarkable for the leaves, which are arranged 

 in umbrella-shaped whorls. 



SciADOPiTYS VERTiciLLATA, Siehold et Zucca- 

 rini. The Umbrella Pine of Japan. Japan. 

 1861. — An interesting and highly ornamental tree 

 that has done well, when planted in suitable soil, 

 in almost every part of the country. Its special 

 requirements are leaf soil or peat and an abundance 

 of moisture that can pass away freely. In this 

 country the rate of growth is slow, but this is to 

 a great extent counterbalanced by the strong 

 though short shoots annually formed, and which 

 become well ripened off before winter sets in. 

 The form of growth is conical, the branches stiff 

 and twiggy, with tufts of deep green foliage near 

 the tips. Leaves arranged in double whorls, each 



