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quarter of an inch long, thickest at the base, tapering to an 

 obtuse, rounded point, and of a pale, yellowish-green colour. 

 Branches scattered along the stem ; lower ones spreading or 

 deflected ; upper ones more or less ascending, regularly forked, 

 and much divided ; lateral ones at irregular distances, forked, 

 slender, long, and pendent. Branchlets filiform, very slender, 

 quite straight, seldom divided, gracefully drooping, thickly 

 covered with foliage, and of a pale, yellowish green, sometimes 

 a little copper-coloured. Male catkins without foot-stalks, 

 oblong or ovate, and terminal ; female flowers terminal, and 

 enclosed in an involucrum, which forms a sort of cup. Fruit 

 solitary and terminal, in the form of a small red berry, con- 

 taining a black seed, and eaten by the natives. 



A noble tree, growing 200 feet high, and lo feet in circum- 

 ference, with pendent branches, and long, slender, drooping 

 shoots, thickly clothed with small, spiny leaves, and very much 

 resembling some of the Lycopodiums. It is found in vast 

 forests on the southern and middle islands of New Zealand, 

 particularly on the great mountains behind Dusky Bay, where 

 the settlers call it the Native Spruce Fir, and the New Zea- 

 landers "Dium," or " Rium," 



It is not hardy. 



No. 5. Dacrydium elatum, Wallich, the Lofty Dacrydium. 

 Syn. Juniperus elata, Roxburgh. 

 rigida, Sieber. 



Philippsiana, Walliclt. 



Lycopodium arboreum, Jungh. 

 Dacrydium Junghuhnii, Miquel. 

 Leaves either needle-shaped, four-cornered, acute-pointed, 

 somewhat erect, and spreading, or scale-formed, ovate-obtuse, 

 rarely acute, and closely depressed, alternate, very dense, and 

 from four to seven lines long ; those on the stem and lower 

 part of the principal branches much shorter, more distant, 

 wider, decurrent, and slightly spreading at the points, while 

 those on the lesser branches and branchlets are needle-shaped, 

 almost cylindrical, spreading, slightly angular, compressed, and 



