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2, Athrotaxis cuprcssoidcs. 



Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVIIl, 173 t. 13, f 2; also figured in Hooker's 



Ic. PL, t. 559. 



"PINE." 



Habitat. 

 Western Ranges and Lake St. Clair, Tasmania. 



SYSTEMATIC. 



A small tree with an erect habit and having fastigiate branches, and a height 

 about 50 feet. Leaves closely appressed to the stem and obtuse, and measuring 

 I to 2 lines in length, thick and keeled. Fruit cones \ inch diameter, spherical, 

 scales with the usual point produced from the original free end of the sporophyll. 



TIMBER. 



Similar in character and texture to that of A. selaginoides , which is fully 

 described under that species. 



3. Athrotaxis laxifolia. 



Hook., Ic. PI., t. 573. 



Habitat. 

 Western Mountain Summits, Tasmania. 



SYSTEMATIC. 



A rather smaller tree than A. cupressoides, but with the general facies of 

 that species, the main difference being the looser, acute, less appressed leaves, 

 and a slightly larger cone. 



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