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flourishes in districts delugod by heavy rains, -where the P. Gcrardiana will 

 not grow. The C. torulosa is the most fragrant of trees, whether as a den- 

 izen of tlie forest it cheers the traveller with its balsamic odors wafted on 

 the breeze, or as a timber tree its wood is burned by the natives as a most 

 grateful incensf to their favorite goddess, Devi. It groA\'s and suits the cli- 

 mate of the Cairnies well. Surely this tree deserves more attention for ot- 

 namental planting. 



2. C Lindleyi. — This new species, from between Angangnco and Tal- 

 puxahua, has proved itself hardy. It is the C. thurifera of Lindley, in B(A. 

 Reg., 1839, app. p. 64. 



C. Macrocarpa, syn. C. Lambertiana, under which name it was originally 

 given to tlie world in compliment to Mr. Lambert, who first, in 1838, com- 

 municated seeds of it to the Horticultural Society of London. This noble 

 species is from Upper California, found to be perfectly hardy, ami attains 

 the height of 60 feet, with a circumference of 9 feet. It is one of the finest 

 of its race, not merely for its beautiful evergreen foliage of the brightest 

 grass-like verdure, but for its perfect hardihood, great size, and striking out,- 

 line^having, when old, much the general character, and wide, horizontal 

 spreading top of a full-grown Cedar of Lebanon. Hardy at tlie Cairnies — 

 a truly noble species. 



JUiMPER/NE^A. 



Of this section there are here two or tliree species, of which I can only 

 notice one, the 



Junipervs excelsa. — This tree has a very extensive range of habitation. 

 It is found in the islands of the Grecian x\rchipelago — e. g., in tlie island of 

 Tassos, where it forms, with the Laricio, whole woods ; it is also found in 

 Tauria, Syria, Asia Minor, and in Arabia — sometimes in the Western Him- 

 nialaya, at an altitude of from 8000 to 12,000 feet above the Sutlej, where, 

 with Cupressus torulosa, it is the only tree. An undoubtedly hardy and fine 

 kind, tliough not exempt from the foetid odor that characterizes many of this 

 family. 



TAXODINE^A. 



1. Taxodium. — This section embraces the giants of the Coniferse. 



Taxodlum distichum. — This is the Ahuahuete of the Mexican Plateau 

 and tlie Cyprus Chauve (Bald Cypress) of tlie southern states of North 

 America ; it is a magnificent tree. It is the deciduous Cypress of Chapul- 

 tepec, in Mexico — otherwise the " Swamp Cypress" — and occupies a moun- 

 tainous range of from 5200 to 7000 feet of altitude, stretching from tlie 38° 

 to 43° of N. lat. Mr. G. F. Ruxton, in his publis-hed Adventures in Mex- 

 ico and the Rocky Mountains, grog's eloquent in his notice of a grove of 

 this magnificent tree, as having been contemporaneous with, but as liaving 

 long outlived tlie Montezuma^ Palace. One of these he measured in 1846, 

 and found it to be 17 yards in girth, or 17 feet diameter, in tlie stem — at 

 once the most picturesque and nobly-proportioned tree it is possible to con- 

 ceive, rising into tlie sky a perfect pyramid of foliage, from whose branches 

 hang pendulous, graceful festoons of a mossy parasite. Baron A. Humboldt 

 is not less eloquent in its praise, describing it as attaining, in. the lofty plains 



