102 



( EXSTS OF EXISTING SPECIES. 



perhaps two Pines and two or three Junipers, the areas inhabited by 

 the species do not overlap. 



I. Euro- Asiatic Eegion 



North of the Alps, Caucasus, Hindu-Rush and 

 Himalayan ranges and excluding China 

 and Japan 



II. Mediterranean Eegion 



Including Asia Minor and the Trans-Caucasian 

 provinces of Russia 



III. East Asiatic Eegion 



Including China, Japan and the Himalayan 

 zone north of the southern foot hills - 



IV. North American Eegion 



East of the Kocky Mountains - 

 V. North American Eegion 



West of the Kocky Mountains, and including 

 Mexico - 



VI. Tropical Eegions of both Hemispheres 



adjacent islands 



VII. Australian Eegion 



Including 



within 



Australia and the 



the Tropics 



VIII. South Temperate Eegion. 



Including Tasmania, New 

 southern Chile 



Zealand, and 



Genera. 



20 



11 



13 



Species. 



u 



56 



30 



66 

 44 



34 



39 



BOTANICAL EETEOSPECT. 



THE Conifers have been studied by many eminent botanists ; the 

 enumeration of the most important of their labours in this field is 

 given in the bibliography of the Order at the end of the volume. The 

 following is a brief sketch of the various essays that have preceded 

 and led to the present classification. 



The starting point of the nomenclature adopted in this Manual is 

 the Genera and Species Plantarum of Linnaeus published in 1753; in. 

 this work twenty-five species of Coniferae are described, which are 

 distributed among five genera all adopted from the older botanists ; all 

 the members of the Fir and Pine tribe, of which there are ten,, 

 including the Larch, Spruce Fir, and two Silver Firs ( Abies pectinata and 

 A. Italsamea), are ranged under --Pinus. The most important work 

 exclusively devoted to the Coniferae immediately following the latest 

 edition of the Genera and Species Plantarum of Linnaeus, is The GCHH* 

 Pinus of Lambert, of which the first volume appeared in 1803,* a 

 remarkable publication for that period, the coloured illustrations still 

 * The second volume was published in 1824, and an octavo edition of the Avliole in 1832.. 



