2458 ArxBORETUM ANn FRUTICETUM. PART III. 



Bagshot Park, 12 years planted, it is 20 ft. high. In Berkshire, at White Knights, 34 years planted, 

 it is 25 ft. high. In Buckinghamshire, at Temple House, 40 years planted, it is 16 ft. high. In Essex, 

 at Braybroke, 51 years planted, it is 35 ft. high. In Nottinghamshire, at Clumber Park, it is .30 ft. 

 high, the diameter of the trunk li ft., and of the head 22 ft. In Radnorshire, at Mae.slaugh Castle, 

 it is 30ft. high, the diameter of the trunk lift., and of the head 15ft In Shropshire, at Kinlct, 

 60 years i)lanted, it is .30 ft. high. In .Staffordshire, at Teddcsley Park, 14 years planted, it is 16 ft 

 high ; at Rolleston Hall, 50 years planted, it is 25 ft high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft, and of the 

 head 10 ft. In Suffolk, at Finborough Hall, 70 years planted, it is 30 ft high. In Worcestershire, 

 at Croome, 40 years planted, it is 20 ft high. — In Scotland. In the environs of Edinburgh, at 

 Gosford House, 80 years planted, it is 20 ft high ; at Hopetoun House, it is 35 ft. high. In Banff- 

 shire, at Gordon Castle, it is 30 ft. high. In Berwickshire, at the Hirsel, 30 years planted, it is 21 ft. 

 high. In Haddingtonshire, at Tynningham, 72 years old, it is 17^ ft. high. In Perthshire, at 

 Inverary, it is 28 ft. high ; at Taymouth, 50 years planted, it is 36 ft. high ; at Perth, in the nursery 

 of Messrs. Dickson and TurnbuU, 22 years planted, it is 12 ft. high. In Ross-shire, at Brahan 

 Castle, 30 years planted, it is 20 ft high. In Stirlingshire, at Airlhrey, 43 years pl.mted, it is 30 ft 

 high, the diameter of the head 18 ft — In Ireland. In the environs of Dublin, in the Glasnevin 

 Botanic Garden, 30 years planted, it is liift. high ; and at Cypress Grove, 20 years planted, it is 

 18ft. high. In King's County, at Charleville Forest, 25 years planted, it is 20 ft. high. In the 

 County Down, at Ballyleady, 22 years iilanted, it is 16 ft high. In Fermanagh, at Florence Court, 

 50 years planted, it is 26 ft. high. In Louth, at Oriel Temple, 30 years planted, it is 30 ft. high. — 

 In France, near Paris, at SciJaux, 10 years planted, it 20 ft high. — In Hanover, in the Giittingen 

 Botanic Garden, 25 years planted, and from 30ft to 40 ft. high. — In Austria, at Vienna, in the 

 University Botanic Garden, 20 years planted, it is 36 ft. high ; at Laxenburg, 25 years planted, 

 it is 20 ft. high ; at Briick on the Leytha. 40 years planted, it is 30 ft high. — In Prussia, at Berlin, 

 at Sans Souci, 90 years planted, it is 14 ft high ; in the Pfauen-Insel, 40 years planted, it is 14 ft 



high. — In Sweden, at the Botanic Garden at Lund, it is 20 tt. high In Italy, at Monza, 21 years 



planted, it is 18 ft high. 



Commercial Slal'idics Seeds, in London, 4^. per lb. Plants, in the London 

 nurseries, are from 6^. to \s. each ; at Bollw^Hcr, 1 tVancj and at New York, 

 50 cents. 



I • 2. T. (o.) plica'ta Donn. The plicate, or Nec's, Arbor Vitae. 



Identification. Donn Ilort. Cantab., 6. p. 249.; Lamb. Pin. ed. 2, 2. No. 61.; Lodd. Cat, 

 ed. 1836. 



Spec. C/iar., Si-c. Branchlcts compressed, spreading. Leaves rhomlioid-ovate, 

 acute, adpresscd, imbricated in 4 rows, naked, tulierclod in the middle. 

 Cones oblona:, nodding. Seeds obcordate. {Lamb. Phi.) A native of 

 Mexico, where it was foimd by Nee; and of the western shores of North 

 America, at Nootka Sound, where it was found by Menzies. Introduced 

 into Britain by the last botanist, in 1796. 



Description, ^-c. A very branchy, spreading, light green tree. Branches 

 crowded, covered with a reddish brown bark ; branchlcts dense, often 

 divided, pectinate, compressed. Leaves rhomboid-ovate, acute, closely ad- 

 pressed, imbricated in 4 rows, crowded together between the nodes; glabrous, 

 quite entire, shining, tubercled in the middle. Cones scattc'^d, solitary, 

 nodding, oblong: scales elliptic, obtuse, flat, obsoletely furrowed. Seeds 

 compressed, winged all round, emarginate at the apex, obcordate-oblong. 

 (Lamb.) There are plants in the Horticultural Society's Garden, at Messrs. 

 Loddiges, and in other collections in the neighbourhood of London, where it 

 has every appearance of being a variety of T. occidentalis, of which we, at 

 least, have no doubt. 



i 3. T. ciiile'nsis Lamb. The Chili Arbor Vitae. 



Identification. Lamb. Pin , ed. 2., 2. p. 128., No. 62. 



Synonyme. Cupri5ssus /hyciidos Pavon MSS. 



Spec. C/iar., Sic. Branchlcts jointed, spreading, compressed. Leaves ovate.oblong, obtuse, some- 

 what 3.angled, imbricated in 4 rows, adprcssed, naked, furrowed on both sides. Cones oval.oblong; 

 scales 4, compressed, elliptic, obtuse. Seeds winged at the apex, entire. (Lamb. Pin., ii. No. 62.) 

 A native of Chili, on the Andes; where it was found by Nee and by Pavon. Not yet intro- 

 duced. 



Description, Sfc. A beautiful, dark green, spreading tree. Branches numerous, drooping, and 

 covered with a greyish-brown bark. Branchlets crowded at the apexes of the branches, ot^en 

 divided, compressed, articulated. Leaves oval.oblong, obtu.se, somewhat trigonous, imbricated in 

 4 rows, adpressed, naked, somewhat distant ; inlernodes distinct, especially in adult ones ; glabrous, 

 marked near the edge on both sides with a whitish, broad, depressed furrow, closely joined at the 

 base, sheathing the branchlets. Cones numerous, terminal, drooping, oblong, compressed, 4-valved ; 

 exterior valves ovate-oblung, boat-shaped, pointetl, externally convex ; interior 2, opposite, spathu- 

 late, flattened at the apex, roundish, having a smaller nearly obsolete tubercle sometimes fertile. 

 Seeds 2, sometimes inserted into the base of the interior valves, having a head scanous and membra, 

 naceous, very blunt; wing at the apex, dccurrent at the base. 



