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PINACE^E. 



[Gymnogens. 



The genus Saxe-Gothrca forms a transition of the most remarkable kind from 

 Conifers to Taxads. Sir William Hooker regarded it as a Podocarp with flowers in a 

 cone. It is in reality a genus with the male flowers of a Podocarp, the females of a 

 Dammar, the fruit of a J uniper, the seed of a Dacrydium, and the habit of a Yew. 



The timber of the Zadd or Theda of Abyssinia, Juniperus procera, one of the 

 largest trees of that country, is hard, durable, and much employed in construction 

 there. It is very nearly the same, if really different, as Juniperus phocnicea. — Ach. 

 Rich. 



That the plants of this order are sometimes poisonous, like Taxads, is now certain. 

 Two children were poisoned a few years since at Chichester, from swallowing the 

 leaves of what was called at the inquest Male Cypress, but which I ascertained, from 

 evidence furnished by Mr. Buckell, to be Cupressus Thyoides. 



ADDITIONAL GENERA. 



Pherosphiera, Archer, near Arthrotaxis. 

 Widdringtonia, Endl. near Callitris. 

 Frenela, Bndl. ditto. 



Actinostrobus, Endl. ditto. 

 Libocedrus, End.l. near Thuja. 



Fitzroya, Hooker, near Thuja. 

 Saxe-Gothaja, Lindl. near Juniperus. 

 Glyptostrobus, Endl. near Taxodium 

 Sequoia, Endl. ditto. 



Fig. CLVIII. a. 



Fig. CLVIII. a. — Cone of Phvus muricata, showing the difference between the outer and inner 

 sides of the same strobilus when the inner side is pressed against a branch. 1. A pair of leaves; 

 •2. the end of the leaf magnified ; 3. a seed, natural size. 



