CONIFEROUS TREES 



ABIES MICEOSPEEMA, Lindl. 

 Lindl. in Gard. Chron. I860, p. 22 ; Man. Con. 1900, ed. 2, p. 425. 



The specific name microsperma was given by Lindley to a Spruce Fir 

 brought from Hakodate by the late John Gould Veitch, a weakly plant 

 unsuitable for the climate of the British Isles. 



ABIES SACHALINENSIS, Mast. 



Syns. A. Veitchii, Lindl., var. sachalinensis, Schmidt. 

 Gard. Chron. 1879, vol. xii. p. 588, fig. 97; Man. Con. 1900, ed. 2, p. 538, fig. 138. 



Originally discovered by Freidrich Schmidt, a German botanical 

 traveller, in the island of Saghalien, in 1866, and described by him as a 

 variety of Abies Veitchii. 



Nothing further was heard till 1878, when, re-discovered by Maries in 

 Yeso, it was introduced the following year : the species has proved too 

 tender to be a success. 



ABIES VEITCHII, Lindl 



Syns. A. Eichleri, Lauche ; Picea Veitchii, Hort. 



Gard. Chroii. 1861, p. 23 ; id. 1880, vol. xiii. p. 275, fig. ; Man. Con. 1900, ed. 2, 



p. 541, fig. 



Discovered in 1860 on Fuji-yama, the "sacred" mountain of the 

 Japanese, named by Dr. Lindley in honour of the late John Gould 

 Veitch, and in 1879 introduced by Charles Maries, when young plants 

 were widely distributed. 



Mayr observed cones in great abundance every third year, and in 

 intermediate years, but few the tree apparently unable to support the 

 continual exhaustion of a heavy annual crop. 



The same observer distinguishes two forms ; the type, in which the 

 apical end of the cone-bract is exserted and bent downwards, and the 

 Nikko form, a local variety with smaller cones, the cone-bracts of which 

 do not protrude beyond the scale. 



AEAUCAEIA IMBEICATA, Pawn. 



Syns. Dumbeya chilensis, Lamarck. 



Masters in Gard. Chron. 1890, vol. vii. p. 587, figs. ; Man. Con. 1900, ed. 2, pp. 296-302, 



figs. 



Araucaria imbricata was discovered in 1780 by Don Francisco Dendari- 

 arena, a Spaniard, and later by two others, Doctors Euiz and Pavon, who 

 had been sent to Peru to investigate the forests on behalf of the Spanish 

 Government. These explorers sent the first dried specimen to Europe, 

 to a Frenchman, Dombey, after whom it was named. In 1795 Captain 

 Vancouver reached the coast of Chili, and with him the botanist Archibald 

 Menzies. 



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