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land, New Caledonia, and the Queen Charlotte Islands. The two 

 trees of Araucaria Bidwillii shown in the Frontispiece are survivors 

 of a forest on the hills of Queensland. The photograph reproduced 

 in fig. 689, for which I am indebted to Dr Wieland 1 , illustrates the 

 habit of Araucaria imbricata on the eastern slopes of the Andes 

 in South- West Argentina where the trunks reach a diameter of 

 two metres. There are few existing trees comparable with these 

 venerable types in the impression they produce of the lapse of 

 ages and the vicissitudes of a dwindled race. 



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CUPRESSINEAE. Cupressus occurs in North America in- 

 cluding the Calif ornian coast and Mexico, in S.E. Europe, temperate 

 Asia, China, and Japan. Chamaecyparis extends to the Sitka 

 Sound and flourishes in China, Japan, and Formosa. Libocedrus, 

 one of the few genera met with in both hemispheres, has a dis- 

 continuous distribution; it occurs in California, Chile, Japan, 

 Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and New "Caledonia. Thuya 

 flourishes over a wide area in North America and occurs in the 

 Far East. Juniperus is characteristic of temperate regions in 

 both the old and new world and is represented in the Canaries, 

 the Azores, Somaliland, and Mexico. Fitzroya is confined to 

 Patagonia and Chile; Diselma to Tasmania. Thujopsis is ex- 

 clusively Japanese. Taxodium is a native of Texas and Mexico, 

 while Glyptostrobus is a closely allied genus in China. The mono- 

 typic Cryptomeria lives in China and Japan ; Cunninghamia in 

 China and Formosa. Taiwania and Fokienia have recently been 

 described from Formosa and East China respectively. Athrotaxis 

 is confined to Tasmania and Tetradinis to North Africa. 



CALLITRINEAE. Callitris occurs in Australia and New 

 Caledonia; Widdringtonia grows in equatorial and South Africa 

 and in Madagascar ; Actinostrobus is restricted to West Australia. 



SCIADOPITINEAE. Sciadopitys is confined to South Japan. 



SEQUOIINEAE. Sequoia is confined to the Pacific coast of 

 North California; S. sempervirens the species with 'the stronger 

 hold upon existence' extends into Oregon, while S. gigantea forms 

 groves in the valleys of the Sierra Nevada. 



PODOCARPINEAE. Podocarpus, one of the more successful 

 genera, is essentially a southern type : in Africa it extends from 



1 Wieland (16), p. 224. 





