24-58 AKBOUETLMI AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 



Bagsliot Park, 12 years planted, it is 20ft. high. In Berkshire, at White Knights, 34 years planted, 

 it is '25 ft. high. In Buckinghamshire, at Temple House, 40 years planted, it is 16 ft. high. In E<sex, 

 at Rraybroke, 51 years planted, it is 35ft. high. In Nottinghamshire, at Clumber Park, it is 30 ft. 

 high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft., and of the head 22 ft. In Radnorshire, at Maeslaugh Castle, 

 it is 30ft. high, the diameter of the trunk lift., and of the head 15ft In Shropshire, at Kinlet, 

 60 years planted, it is 30ft. high. In Staffordshire, at Teddesley Park, 14 years planted, it is 16ft. 

 high ;' at Rolleston Hall, 50 years planted, it is y5ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft., and of the 

 head 10 ft. In Suffolk, at Finborough Hail, 70 years planted, it is 30 ft. high. In Worcestershire, 

 at Croome, 40 years planted, it is 20ft. high. In Scotland. In the environs of Edinburgh, at 

 Gosford House, 80 years planted, it is 20ft. high ; at Hopctoun House, it is 35 ft. high. In Banff- 

 shire, at Gordon Castle, it is 30 ft. high. In Berwickshire, at the Hirsel, 30 years planted, it is 21 ft. 

 high. In Haddingtonshire, at Tynningham, 72 years old, it is 17| ft. high. In Perthshire, at 

 Inverary, it is 28ft. high ; at Taymouth, 50 years planted, it is 36ft. high ; at Perth, in the nursery 

 of Messrs. Dickson and Turnbull, 22 years planted, it is 12 ft. high. In Ross-shire, at Brahan 

 Castle, 30 years planted, it is 20 ft. high. In Stirlingshire, at Airthrey, 43 years planted, it is 30 ft. 

 high, the diameter of the head 18 ft In Ireland. In the environs of Dublin, in the Glasnevin 

 Botanic Garden, 30 years planted, it is 16ft high; and at Cypress Grove, 20 years planted, it is 

 18ft. high. In King's County, at Charleville Forest, 25 years planted, it is 20ft. high. In the 

 County Down, at Ballyleady, 22 years planted, it is 16ft high. In Fermanagh, at Florence Court, 

 50 years planted, it is 26 ft. "high. In Louth, at Oriel Temple, 30 years planted, it is 30ft. high. 

 In France, near Paris, at Sceaux, 10 years planted, it 20ft. high. In Hanover, in the Gottingen 

 Botanic Garden, 25 years planted, and from 30ft to 40 ft. high. In Austria, at Vienna, in the 

 University Botanic Garden, 20 years planted, it is 36ft. high; at Laxenburg, 25 years planted, 

 it is 20 ft. high ; at Briick on the Leytha. 40 years planted, it is 30 ft. high. In Prussia, at Berlin, 

 at Sans Souci, 90 years planted, it is 14ft high ; in the Pfauen-Insel, 40 years planted, it is 14ft. 

 high. In Sweden, at the Botanic Garden at Lund, it is 20 ft. high. In'ltaly, at Monza, 24 years 

 planted, it is 18 ft. high. 



Commercial Statistics Seeds, in London, 4s. per Ib. Plants, in the London 

 nurseries, are from 6d. to I*, each ; at Bollwyller, 1 franc; and at New York, 

 50 cents. 



1 * 2. T. (o.) PLICA^TA Donn. The plicate, or yee\ Arbor Vita?. 



Identification. Donn Hort. Cantab., 6. p. 249.; Lamb. Pin. ed. 2., 2. No. 61.; Lodd. Cat, 

 ed. 1836. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Branchlets compressed, spreading. Leaves rhomboid-ovate, 

 acute, adpressed, imbricated in 4 rows, naked, tubercled in the middle. 

 Cones oblong, nodding. Seeds obcordate. (Lamb. Pin.) A native of 

 Mexico, where it was found by Nee; and of the western shores of North 

 America, at Nootka Sound, where it was found by Menzies. Introduced 

 into Britain by the last botanist, in 1796. 



Description, $c. A very branchy, spreading, light green tree. Branches 

 crowded, covered with a reddish brown bark ; branchlets dense, often 

 divided, pectinate, compressed. Leaves rhomboid-ovate, acute, closely ad- 

 pressed, imbricated in 4 rows, crowded together between the nodes ; glabrous, 

 quite entire, shining, tubercled in the middle. Cones scattered, solitary, 

 nodding, oblong : scales elliptic, obtuse, flat, obsoletely furrowed. Seeds 

 compressed, winged all round, emarginate at the apex, obcordate-oblong. 

 (Lamb.) There are plants in the Horticultural Society's Garden, at Messrs. 

 Loddiges, and in other collections in the neighbourhood of London, where it 

 has every appearance of being a variety of T. occidentalis, of which we, at 

 least, have no doubt. 



1 3. T. CHILE'NSIS Lamb. The Chili Arbor Vitae. 



Identification. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 2. p. 128., No. 62. 



Synonyme. Cupressus /hyoides Pavon MSS. 



Spec. Char., %c. Branchlets jointed, spreading, compressed. Leaves ovate-oblong, obtuse, some- 



what 3-angled, imbricated in 4 rows, adpressed, naked, furrowed on both sides. Cones oval-oblong ; 



scales 4, compressed, elliptic, obtuse. Seeds winged at the apex, entire. (Lamb. Pin., ii. No. 62.) 



A native of Chili, on the Andes ; where it was found by Nee and by Pavon. Not yet intro- 



duced. 



Description, 8[C. A beautiful, dark green, spreading tree. Branches numerous, drooping, and 

 covered with a greyish-brown bark. Branchlets crowded at the apexes of the branches, often 

 divided, compressed, articulated. Leaves oval-oblong, obtuse, somewhat trigonous, imbricated in 

 4 rows, adpressed, naked, somewhat distant; internodes distinct, especially in adult ones ; glabrous, 

 marked near the edge on both sides with a whitish, broad, depressed furrow, closely joined at the 

 base, sheathing the branchlets. Cones numerous, terminal, drooping, oblong, compressed, 4-valved ; 

 exterior valves ovate-oblong, boat-shaped, pointed, externally convex ; interior 2, opposite, spathu- 

 latc, flattened at the apex, roundish, having a smaller nearly obsolete tubercle sometimes fertile. 

 Seeds 2, sometimes inserted into the base of the interior valves, having a head scanous and membr.*- 

 naceous, very blunt; wing at the apex, decurrent at the base. 



