412 PINACEAE. 



1' long, rather densely covering the twigs, and globose cones 1' in diameter, 

 their scales with a recurved dorsal appendage. [Cupressus japonica L. f.] 



Araucaria Bidwillii Hook,, Bunya-bunya, Australian, seen as a young 

 plant at Cedar Lodge in 1914, becomes, under favorable conditions, a tali 

 narrow tree with slender twigs; its stiff lanceolate sharp-pointed leaves are 

 about V long, spreading in one plane, although arranged in two rows; Lefroy 

 records two trees at Mt. Langton in 1877, but they have not survived. 



Araucaria excelsa E. Br., Xorfolk Island Pine, is the most luxuriant 

 coniferous evergreen tree that has been introduced into Bermuda, and there 

 are now many fine specimens on lawns; some of them 45° high or more. This 

 tree has nearly horizontal whorled branches, the twigs densely covered with 

 narrow curved leaves about V long; its ovoid blunt cones, about 5' long, are 

 covered with narrow scales with reflexed tips; lateral branches, when planted, 

 remain prostrate and spread over the ground. 



Young plants, about 8' high, of Sequoia Washingtoniana (Winslow) 

 Sudworth, the Mammoth Tree, or Big Tree of California, and of Sequoia 

 sempervirens (Lamb.) Endlicher, the Eed-wood, of the Pacific coast of the 

 United States, were seen at Paget Eectory in 1914, grown from seeds ger- 

 minated there. Lefroy planted a young Mammoth Tree in 1874 and records 

 its- living up to 1877. 



A row of young Spruces (Picea sp.) were seen at Camden in 1914; they 

 were then not large enough to bear cones, and the species is not determined. 



Lefroy records the planting of many kinds of conifers at Mt. Langton, 

 which did not succeed. 



Family 2. TAXACEAE Lindl. 



Yew Family. 



Trees or shrubs, resin-bearing except Taxus. Leaves evergreen or de- 

 ciduous, linear, the pollen-sacs and ovules borne in separate clusters or 

 solitary. Perianth wanting. Stamens much as in the Pinaceae. Ovules 

 with either one or t^vo integuments; when two, the outer one fleshy; when 

 only one, its outer part fleshy. Fruit drupaceous or rarely a cone. About 

 8 genera and 75 species, of wide geographic distribution, most numerous 

 in the southern hemisphere. 



Podocarpus Makoyi Blume, Makoy's Podocarpus, Japanese, a shrub or 

 small tree, with linear-lanceolate acute dark-green leaves about 3' long and 3" 

 wide, their margins revolute, was taken to Mt. Langton from the New York 

 Botanical Garden in 1913. 



Podocarpus coriaceus L. C. Eich., Leathery Podocarpus, of the eastern 

 West Indies and northern South America, recorded by Jones as growing in 

 Bermuda prior to 1873, forms a tree up to 75° high; its leaves are 4' to 6' long, 

 4"-8" wide, their margins flat or nearly so. 



Order 2. CYCADALES. 



Palm-like or fern-like dioecious woody plants with erect trunks, some- 

 times short and wholly buried in the ground, growing only from the summit 

 and thus unbranched, although sometimes forming lateral adventitious 



