Athrotaxis 1 45 3 



and translucent. Leaves on the older branchlets increasing in size, becoming dark 

 brown and about in. long in the fifth or sixth year. 



Cones, nodding on curved branchlets, in. in diameter; scales 10 or 12, much 

 smaller than in the other species, less than in. long, with a triangular recurved 

 process on the middle of the expanded lamina. 



This species is said by Rodway to be a small erect tree, about 40 ft. high, 

 found in the western mountains of Tasmania, near St. Clair and to the west and 

 south-west of Field Range. It rarely exceeds 5 or 6 feet in girth ; but Sir J. 

 Hooker mentions one very old and hollow tree, which was 15 ft. in girth at 3^ feet 

 from the ground. Baker and Smith state that the timber resembles in all respects 

 that of A. selaginoides. 



It was introduced in 1857 by Mr. Archer at the same time as the other species, 

 and resembles them in cultivation ; but it is rare and has not attained in this 

 country as great a height as A. laxifolia. In Cornwall, a tree 20 ft. high was bearing 

 cones in Gill's nursery, near Penryn, in January 191 2; and a smaller specimen, 

 also bearing fruit, occurs at Trewidden. Kent mentioned in 1900 a fine specimen 

 at Upcott, near Barnstaple ; which, Mr. W. Harris informs us, has lately lost its 

 leader and is now only 13 ft. high. In Hillier's nursery at Shroner, near Winchester, 

 a tree, planted in 1887, was I2 & h'gli in 19 10, and had commenced to bear cones 

 in small quantity. There is also a small specimen at Brickendon Grange, Hertford, 

 which was 5 ft. high in 191 1. 



In Ireland, a fine specimen bearing fruit at Kilmacurragh was 21 ft. high in 

 March 191 2; while another at Powerscourt 1 was 22 ft. high. A thriving tree at 

 Castlewellan, 15 ft. high, bore 18 of frost without injury in February 191 2. 



(A. H.) 



1 Erroneously called A. Doniana in Gard. Chron. xlix. 219 (1911). 



