Family PINACE^E. 



Tribe I. ARAUCARIE^:. 



I. Agathis. 2, Araucaria. 



Tribe II. ABIETINE^:. 



3. Larix. 7. Picea. 



4. Pseudolarix. 8. Tsuga. 



5. Cedrus. 9. Pseudotsuga. 



6. Pinus. 10.' Abies. 



Tribe IIL TAXODIE^. 



II. Sciadopitys. 15. Cryptomeria. 



12. Cunninghamia. 16. Taxodium. 



13. Sequoia. 17. Glyptostrobus. 



14. Arthro taxis. 



Tribe IV. CUPRESSINE.E. 



Sub-tribe 1. Aciinostrobince. 



18. Actinostrobus. 20. Fitzroya. 



19. Callitris. 



Sub-tribe 2. Thujopsidince. 



21. Thujopsis. 23. Thuja. 



22. Libocedrus. 



Sub-tribe 3. Cupressince. 

 24. Cupressus. 25. Chamsecyparis. 



Sub-tribe 4. Juniperinw* 

 26 Juniperus. 



We have thus two large Families, the Taxacece, with usually a fleshy fruit 

 enclosing a single seed, and greatly resembling a drupe (the fruit of a cherry 

 is a familiar form of drupe), and the Coniferce proper, with dry, woody scales 

 and numerous seeds which make up the fruit of this section. A Pine-cone 

 is a typical example of the true Coniferee, but the fruits of Coniferse are not 

 all cono-shaped. 



The so-called berries (galbuli) of the Juniper have a superficial resemblance 

 to the fruits of Taxads, but structurally they conform to the strobiles or 

 fruits of the Coniferse, the confluent scales being fleshy or succulent, instead 

 of ligneous. 



The work I have chiefly consulted in the compilation of these notes is the 2nd 

 Edition of Yeitch's "Manual of the Coriiferse," which Dr. Max well T.. Masters 

 personally and warmly recommended to me. Dr. Masters is the greatest 

 British authority on Coniferse, and one of the foremost in the world, so that 

 his writings should also be referred to in points of doubt. A defect of the 

 book to Australians lies in the fact that, as a very general rule, only those 

 Taxads and Conifers are dealt with which are hardy in Great Britain and 

 Ireland. An index list of all Coniferce would be desirable. 



For American Conifers, the work of the greatest dendrologist of that 

 continent, Prof. C. S. Sargent, has been often quoted. The references 

 " Sargent, t. 600 " (as the case may be) refer to the beautiful illustrations in 

 his monumental " Silva of North America." 



