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meeting with a single tree of Ta.odlum dhlkhum bearing plenty of ripe fruit in the garden of a Blacksmith 

 opposite the King's Arms, Bagshot. I was dehghted with my discovery, as I had never before had the pleasure 

 of meeting with this interesting tree with frnit on it, a circumstance of very rare occurrence m this country. 

 The garden is the property of Mr. Rogers, Innkeeper, at Southampton. At the Parsonage m the vjcnuty 

 of Bagshot there are two trees of the Taxodium, even larger than the one in the Blacksmith's garden, but on 

 them I was able to Hnd a single cone only. I am in possession of several native specimens with male flowers, 

 collected by Mr. Nuttall on the banks of the Missouri, and others from Mexico sent me byM. Pavon. The 

 North American and Mexican specimens appear tome to belong decidedly to one and the same species as 

 Humboldt has already rightly determined. The generic description given above is exclusively formed from the 

 TaxodiuM dhtichum, having had only a single imperfect specimen of the, other species for exammation. It is not 

 without some hesitation, therefore, that X have referred it to Ta^odrnm. I have thought the plant too interest- 

 ing however, to omit in the present work, leaving it to future observations to determine, whether or not 

 the place which I have assigned to it^ be its true place." This plant, "1 propose to call sempervirens, from 

 its evergreen leaves, so different from the Taxodium distkhum, whose leaves are deciduous. 



I have been enabled to give the accompanying figure of this Interesting tree from a specimen obhgmgly 

 communicated to me by my friend Mr. Menzies, who collected it oii the north-west coast of America 

 durin- his voya-e on board the expedition of the celebrated Vancouver. The largest and finest trees of 

 the Tuccodium disikhum, in this country, are those belonging to His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, 



at Sion-House. 



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TAB. 7. Fig. 2. 



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DACRYDIUM TAXIFOLIUM. 



YEW-LEAVED DACRYDIUM. 



Dacrydium TAXIFOLIUM, foliis dlstichis kt^ hncarlbus acutis falcatis margine dellexis basi obliquis utrinque 



opacis viridibus, amentis masculis drupisque in splca digestis. 



Dacrydium taxifolium. Solaiider MSS. 



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Habitat in Novae-Zealandije sylvis copies^. Banks^ Solcmder, Menzies, Phillips. 



DESCUIPTIO. 



Arhor procera, in uliginosis proveniens. Truncus crassus, strictissimus, Uami et ramuli mimerosi, paten- 

 ti.simi, flcxuosi, cortice nifo obducti. Folia distantla, duplici serie ordinata, patula, lat^ linearia, acuta 

 ut plurlmim falcata, instar illis Taxi atque simiil colore opaeo-viridi gaudentia, margine deflexa, basi ob- 

 lique inaequaha, polhcem longa, hneam aut nunc rariiis ultrti lata, petiolo brevissimo exili stipitata. Amenta 

 »i05c«/a plum (10-20), dlstantia,sessilia, patula, in spicis lateralibus nunc terminalibus dlgcsta, semiun- 

 cialia, oblonga, cylindracea, patula, crassltie bihnearla. Drupa; plures (4-7), spicatae, subsessiles, 

 ovales, mucrone brevi terminatse. 



