Coniferce.~] FLORA OF TASMANIA. ;?!!» 
from C. distyla, except by the stature and slenderer branchlet*. 1 tiiul however as dead* bnmchl. \m 
and I fear that the stature of all the species affords a very fallacious cliaracter Mi,, u .-| di-tin i 
by having more slender branches.— Platk XCV1. ./, male, and /i, female plant.-; (. female cm,,- 
male catkin; 2, bud of male flower; 3, the same, expanded; I ami .",. hraei- «'.. scale of the perianth- 7 trm- 
verse section of anther ; 8, pollen ; y, tissue of anther ; ln. ( ; ., I bracts 11 female ,'■, >i- 
tulum; 12, the same, with lower scales and llower> lvumved : U. p.;:' ,n ,.f r 
flowers; 14, outer bract ; 15, inner bracts and flou.r: b;. rip, e..n ■ -> 17 t |„. .■„,'„ l ,„| ,,', 
web of spiral tissue in the walls of the pericarp, an immature se, ,1 ami ovule; K mature .,-rd and ovule 
19, imperfect ovule; 20, seed, opened, showing the embryo; 21. embryo; 22. spiral : - 
(a, remains of pericarp); 24, cotyledons, haw-, branch, etc : 2">. di.i-r. 
and 23 very highly magnified. 
Nat. Ord. LXXYI. COXIFKU.K. 
The distribution of the plants of this Family in the southern hemisphere is in many n s] 
ingly curious. In all parts of the globe they affect mountain localities i„ preference to plains, and pool 
climates rather than hot; for though some few species, growing socially, cover enormous level areas in the 
north temperate zone, none do so in the tropics or south temperate zone, and the pnera and species arc 
always far more varied in rather elevated regions. The cool, damp, hilly surface of Tasmania nn-i.t 
therefore be expected to possess a far greater variety of Coniform than anv equal ana at a 
Australia, and so it does; but, on the other hand, the individual specie* an k local, and | 
individuals, that I believe the island may be crossed from north to south nitlmu! 
Order being met with. 
There are in Austral 
liar to Tasmania, one common to its mountains and the alps of Victoria, and an • 
of both countries. Only five or six species have been found in the south-west ,,u 
the tropics. These thirty species belong to eleven genera, of which su are peculiar to 
four of them being confined to Tasmania itself. The genera which are not peculiar 
in the tropics and south temperate regions of Asia and America, in the southern latitudes of Africa, and in 
China and Japan; DacryJle„<. which is chieriy a New Zealand genus, but has species in Eastern India 
and the Malay Archipelago; Araucaria, of which there are two subtropie.il New Sooth Wall - 
others in Norfolk Island, New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, Chili, and Brazil ; /'/ 
species inhabit New Zealand, and one the lofty mountain of Kini Balou, in Borneo; and Dammara, which 
occurs also in New Zealand, New Caledonia, and the Moluccas. 
The Australian Conifem are generally referred to three Suborders of that Natural Family : they are, 
Cupressine;e, containing Frenela, i Abii;tini..k, to which 
together with Athrotaxis ; and Podgcaki'k.i;, i I 
cladus. The above however are artificial divisions, founded chiefly upon the n 
cones; a more natural one is that proposed by Brown and Bennett 
founded on the form of th 
dine, l)tsel„>a, and Athrotaxu), and curved or of an irregular figure in Abiktini ; 
Daci'i/diurn, Phyllocladus, PherosjJta-ra, and Mtcrocachrys). 
The structure and morphology of the flowers of the genera of this Order present many great difficul- 
ties, which were first overcome by Mr. Brown; and as it is impossible to understand the nature of the parta 
of any one species without a detailed examination and study of many, I shall endeavour in a i\:\\ words to 
