GENERA. XIX 



Gen. Wellingtonia, Lindley. Leaves needle-shaped, spiral, 

 and spreading, or scale-formed and imbricated on the 

 adult trees. 



Flowers, male and female on the same plant, but 

 separate. 



Cones large, obtusely oval, woody, terminal, and soli- 

 tary, with peltate, wedge-shaped scales, placed spirally 

 at right angles upon the axis. 



Seeds narrow, with a blunt point at the apex, and 

 furnished with broad, flat, thickish, oval, pale, mem- 

 branaceous wings, frequently unequally sided, auriculated 

 at the base, and two lines long, and rather more than 

 one line broad ; the seeds are mostly in fives under each 

 scale. 



Gen. Cryptomeria, Don. Leaves irregularly four-sided, sickle- 

 shaped, acute-pointed, scattered, decurrent, spreading, 

 and persistent. 



Flowers, male and female on the same plant, but 

 separate. 



Cones globular and woody, with peltate, wedge-shaped 

 scales, furnished on the back with broad, recurved, 

 spiny points. 



Seeds from three to five, angularly flattened, and 

 winged on the sides. 



Tribe III. JUMPERED, the Juniper Tribe. 



Fruit, a globular kind of berry, composed of a fleshy or fibrous juicy 

 substance, covered with a glossy skin, more or less angular, and fur- 

 nished externally with minute scales. 



Seeds hard, bony shelled, either connected together or unconnected, 

 and from one to five in number. 



Leaves simple, opposite, or ternate, lanceolate, or scale-formed, and 

 either in extended Avhorls, or closely imbricated in four rows. 



Gen. Juniperus, Linnmus. Leaves opposite or ternate, lanceo- 

 late, or scale-formed, and either in extended whorls, or 

 closely imbricated in four rows. 



Flowers, male and female on different plants. 



