1 66 PHYSIOGNOMY OP PLANTS. 



(lat. 40-52) ; and in the southern hemisphere to New 

 Zealand, Tasmania or Yan Diemen Island, the south of 

 Chili and Patagonia (between 43 and 50 latitude). The 

 most gigantic forms belong to the genera of Pinus, Sequoia 

 (Endl.), Araucaria, and Dacrydium. I propose to name 

 only those species which not only attain but often exceed 

 200 Trench feet (213 Eng.) In order to afford a standard 

 of comparison, it should be remarked that in Europe the 

 tallest Red and White Pines, the latter especially, attain 

 about!50or 160 (160170 Eng.) feet; that, for example, 

 in Silesia the Pine of the Lampersdorf Forest near Franken- 

 stein enjoys great celebrity, although, with a circumference 

 of 17 English feet, its height is only 153 Prussian, or 148 

 French, or 158 English feet. (Compare Eatzeburg, For- 

 streisen, 1844, S. 287.) 



Pinus grandis (Douglas) in New California attains 224 

 English feet. 



Pinus fremontiana (Endl.), also in New California, pro- 

 bably attains the same stature as the preceding. (Torrey 

 and Fremont, Report of the Exploring Expedition to the 

 Rocky Mountains in 1844, p. 319.) 



Dacrydium cupressinum (Solander), from New Zealand, 

 213 English feet. 



Pinus lambertiana (Dougl.), in North-west America, 

 224235 English feet. 



Araucaria excelsa (R. Brown), the Cupressus columnaris 

 of Forster, in Norfolk Island and the surrounding rocky 

 islets, 181 224 English feet. The six species of Araucaria 



