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obsolete scales, and large leafy toothed bracts. A native of 

 China, and too tender for any but the most favourable localities 

 in this country. 



Artlirotdxis is a small genus of Australasian evergreen 

 dioecious shrubs with small scale-like leaves and small glo- 

 bular cones of imbricated scales with from 3 to 5 carpels under 

 each scale. None of the species are hardy enough to with- 

 stand our ordinary winters. 



5. SCIAD6P1TYS. 



So far as at present known, this is a monotypic genus. 

 Leaves linear, whorled. Male conea small, sessile, terminal. 

 Female cones ultimately pedunculate ; scales broad, rounded, 

 entire, coriaceous, persistent ; bract short, broad. Seeds 

 winged, 7 to 9 under each scale. The name is a compound 

 of Gtctds dBos a parasol, and TTLTVS^ a Pine-tree, in allusion to 

 the disposition of the leaves resembling the framework of an 

 umbrella. 



1. S. verticillata. Umbrella Pine. -A large evergreen tree 

 from 50 to 150 feet high, according to situation. Leaves from 

 2 to 4 inches long, and about 2 lines broad, linear, obtuse, gla- 

 brous, from 20 to 40 in each whorl. Cones solitary, from 2 to 3 

 inches long. This singular and beautiful tree is a native of 

 Japan, and quite hardy in this country. It was introduced into 

 Europe in 1861. 



6, ARAUCAB1A. 



Dioecious or sub-dioecious evergreen trees with usually im- 

 bricated persistent flat sessile scale-like leaves. Male cones 

 large, cylindrical, terminal. Female cones veiy large, globular, 

 terminal, with dense ligneous deciduous scales, each bearing a 

 solitary seed. A genus of few species found in South America 

 and Australasia. The generic name is from Araucanos, the name 

 of a tribe of people in Chili whose principal article of diet is 

 furnished by the large nuts of A. imbricata. 



1. A. imbricata. Chili Pine. This is a most majestic tree, 

 from 100 to 150 feet high, of pyramidal or conical outline. 

 Branches rigid, horizontal or slightly depressed, arranged in 

 symmetrical whorls, and densely clothed with large flat sessile 

 sharp-pointed glossy green leaves, which perish only with the 

 tree. Cones from 6 to 9 inches broad and long. Seeds 

 oblong or cuneate, 1 to 2 inches long, scarcely winged. This 



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