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America and to the Rocky Mountains (lat. 40-52); and in the 

 Southern Hemisphere to New Zealand, Tasmania or Van Diemen 

 Island, the south of Chili and Patagonia (between 43 and 50 

 latitude). The most gigantic forms belong to the genera of Pinus, 

 Sequoia (Endl.), Araucaria, and Dacrydium. I propose to name 

 only those species which not only attain but often exceed 200 

 French feet (213 Eng.). In order to afford a standard of compari- 

 son, it should be remarked that in Europe the tallest Red and 

 White Pines, the latter especially, attain about 150 or 160 (160- 

 170 Eng.) feet; that, for example, in Silesia the Pine of the 

 Lampersdorf Forest near Frankenstein enjoys great celebrity, al- 

 though, with a circumference of 17 English feet, its height is only 

 153 Prussian, or 148 French, or 158 English feet. (Compare 

 Ratzeburg, Forstreisen, 1844, s. 287.) 



Pinus grandis (Douglas), in New California, attains 224 English 

 feet. 



Pinus fremontiana (Endl.), also in New California, probably 

 attains the same stature as the preceding. (Torrey and Fremont, 

 Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, in 

 1844, p. 319.) 



Dacrydium cupressinum (Solander), from New Zealand, 213 

 English feet. 



Pinus lambertiana (Dougl.), in North-west America, 224235 

 English feet. 



Araucaria excelsa (R. Brown), the Cupressus columnaris of 

 Forster, in Norfolk Island, and the surrounding rocky islets, 181- 

 224 English feet. The six species of Araucaria which have be- 

 come known to us hitherto, fall, according to Endlicher, into two 

 groups : 



a. The American group (Brazil and Chili) : A. brasiliensis 

 (Rich.), between 15 and 25 S. lat.; and A. imbricata (Pavon), 

 between 35 and 50 S. lat., the latter growing to 234-260 

 English feet. 



b. The Australian group : A. bidwilli (Hook.) and A cunning- 

 hami (Ait.) on the east side of New Holland; A. excelsa on Norfolk 

 Island, and A. cookii (R. Brown) in New Caledonia. Corda, Presl. 



