PART III. ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 2603 



consequence of which the branches snap short off the trunk.' 

 H. S. Redbrae Cottage, Edinburgh, March 2. 1838." 



L. americdna. Varieties. Pages 2400. and 2401., substitute the sign of a 

 deciduous tree for that of an evergreen one, for all the varieties. 



Cedrus Libdni. 2413. 1. 14. from the bottom, 

 after the words " the old cedar in front of 

 Quenby Hall," add : "see our /g.2544." 

 Add to the end of the paragraph : " In a 

 letter from Evelyn to Pepys, when the lat- 

 ter was at Tangier, is the following pas- 

 sage : * Mr. Sheeres will remember the poor 

 gardener, if he happen on any kernels or 

 seeds of such trees and plants, especially 

 evergreens, as grow about those precincts. 

 Were it not possible to discover whether 2544 



any of those citrine trees are yet to be found, that of old grew about 

 the foote of Mount Atlas, not far from Tingis ? Now, for that some 

 copies in Pliny reade cedria, others citria, 'twould be enquired what 

 sort of cedar (if any) grows about that mountaine.' (Mem. and Corr. 

 of Pepys, v. p. 105.) It is remarkable that the cedar has since 

 been found on Mount Atlas." 



C. Deodara. 2431., add to the first paragraph : " In the very interesting 

 review of Moorcroft's Travels in Ladakh, Kashmir, Bokhara, &c., in 

 the Quarterly Review for January, 1838, an account is given of the 

 excursion of Captain Johnstone, in August, 1827, to penetrate the 

 Himalaya to the sources of the Jumna, and thence to the confines of 

 Chinese Tartary. They traced the course of the river up to Jumno- 

 tree. Cursola, a small village in the very heart of the chasm, is 

 described as an isolated cluster of about 25 houses, 9000ft. above the sea, 

 with three or four small temples, having excellent roofs of carved deo- 

 dar wood. The glen from this village to Jumnotree was gloomy, and the 

 peaks were completely hidden by forests of the gigantic deodar. The 

 Brooang Pass was only accessible over a bed of snow ; and, on their 

 descent from it on the northern side, they measured a deodar cedar, 

 and found it 33ft. in circumference, and from 60ft. to 70ft. high, 

 without a branch. (Quart. Rev., vol. Ixi. No. 121. p. 105.) On the 

 mountains that enclose the valleys of Kashmir, Moorcroft tells us, are 

 immense forests of deodars ; the timber of which is extensively used in 

 their temples, mosques, and buildings in general. Such, says Moor- 

 croft, is its durability, that in none of the 384 columns of the great 

 mosque of Jana Musjid was there any vestige of decay, either from 

 exposure or insects, although they had been erected above a century 

 and a half. Most of the bridges are of this timber ; and some pieces in 

 one were found very little decayed, though they had been exposed to 

 the action of the water for 400 years. (Ibid., p. 1 18.)" 



Araucaria excelsa. 2443. 1. 6., add, after full stop : " A tree at Laxenburg, 

 near Vienna, Baron Jacquin informs us, is one of the finest and most 

 picturesque specimens of this species that can be seen." 

 1. 7., for " Araucaria imbricata," read " Araucaria excelsa." 



A. Cunninghdmn. 2443., add to list of Engravings: " Our^g. 2545. shows 

 the female cone, and a sprig bearing male cones, to our usual scale; 

 and a young male cone, the point of a shoot, and the leaves on an old 

 branch, of the natural size." 



Dammara australis. 2449. I. 54., for " In 1837," read " In December, 



1837." 



1. 56., after " a pale green tinge," add : " In the London and Edinburgh 

 Philosophical Magazine for March, 1838, p. 249., is an article on 'the 

 Kouri, or Cowdee, Resin, by J. Prideaux, Member of the Plymouth 

 Institution.' In this, it is stated that some cargoes of kouri timber 



