43 8 Coniferte Sequoia. 



thrive well on well-drained soil, and grow at an extraordinarily 

 rapid rate. A native of California. 



Ddmmara is the last genus of this tribe, but all the species 

 are tender. They are large dioecious trees with flat coriaceous 

 leaves, and oblong or spherical densely imbricated cones with 

 a solitary seed at the base of each scale. D. australis is the 

 Kauri Pine of New Zealand. 



TKIBE ILCUPRESSINE^. 



Fertile flowers in small cones or strobiles consisting of a few 

 bracts and no scales. Ovules and seeds erect, one or more at 

 the base of each scale. 



8. JUNIPERUS. 



Evergreen trees or shrubs, often with two kinds of leaves, and 

 usually dioecious flowers. Leaves needle-shaped, linear or lan- 

 ceolate, rigid or flexible, scattered or imbricated, not clustered. 

 Male flowers in small axillary clustered aments. Fruit small, 

 berry-like, composed of a few closely appressed at length fleshy 

 scales with 1 or more seeds at the base of each scale. This 

 genus is very numerous in species and forms which are very 

 difficult of discrimination, and it is almost impossible to deter- 

 mine them from the most carefully framed descriptions, much 

 less from the short notes we are able to afford space for. But 

 those who are familiar with some of the species may glean 

 from our comparative characters what the others are like. The 

 species are all natives of temperate and cold regions, mainly in 

 the north. The classical name for the common species. 



1. J. Chinensis.-^-Tliis is a very handsome dioecious shrub. 

 The male and female plants are of distinct habit and aspect, 

 the former being the handsomer of the two. Leaves ternate or 

 opposite, linear, flat, acute and spreading, or small, scale-like and 

 closely imbricated. On young plants and in the males they 

 are nearly all of the first sort. The male plant is more uni- 

 versally cultivated than the female. It is a dense much- 

 branched shrub with dark green foliage and somewhat drooping 

 branches. The flowers are produced in great abundance in 

 early Spring. The male plant bears the alias of J. flagelli- 

 formis, and has long pendulous branches of a glaucous hue. 

 Native of China and Japan, and quite hardy. 



2. J. Japonica, syn. /. procumbens. A dwarf dense bushy 



