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flowered. It is to be hoped that it will prove free-flowering, for the enormous 

 white bracts surrounding the inflorescence would make it one of the most 

 striking of hardy climbers. The stems of our young plants are very downy, 

 and the down persists till the following year, but on Wilson's wild flowering 

 specimens they are quite smooth. 



SdADOriTYS VERTICILLATA. 



SCIADOPITYS VERTICILLATA, Siebold. 



CONIFERS. 



UMBRELLA PINE. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 8050.) 



An evergreen tree, over 100 ft. high, with a trunk 3 to 4 ft. thick; 

 young shoots brown, not downy. The true leaves of this tree are small, 

 membranous, scale-like bodies, about -J- in. long, scattered over the lower 

 part of each year's shoot, and crowded into two or three imbricating rows 



