246 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



At Southampton,! in the Red Lodge nursery belonging to Mr. W. H. Rogers, 

 there was a tree twenty-five years old in 1884, about 20 feet high, which bore 

 cones in profusion. At Kew a specimen planted in a sheltered position lived for 

 many years, but ultimately succumbed. Sir Joseph Hooker^' knew of no good 

 specimen nearer London than one on a south slope near Leith Hill in a very 

 sheltered and well-watered valley. 



At Fota, in the S.W. of Ireland, the seat of Lord Barrymore, Henry 

 measured a tree about 40 feet by 4 feet 10 inches in 1904; and there are trees 

 at Kilmacurragh and Powerscourt, in Co. Wicklow, which are about 30 feet high, all 

 of very branching bushy habit, and with several main stems. 



Sargent' has never seen a specimen in the United States. (H. J. E.) 



TSUGA SIEBOLDII, Siebold's Hemlock 



Tsuga Sieboldii, Carriere, TraiU Conif. i86 (1855); Masters, >;/;-. Linn. Soc. (^(7/.), xviii. 512 

 (i88i); Mayr, Abiet. des Jap. Reiches, 59, t. iv. fig. 12 (1890); Kent, Veitch's Man. 

 Conifej-a, 472 (1900). 



Tsuga Tsiija, A. Murray, F?vf. R. Hort. Soc. ii. 508, ff. 141-153 (1862). 



Tsuga Araragi, Koehne, Deutsche Dendrohgie, lo (1893), and Sargent, Garden and Forest, x. 491, 

 fig. 62 (1897). 



Pinus Araragi, Siebold, Verhandl. Batav. Getwot. Konst. Wet. xii. 12 (1830). 



Abies Tsuga, Siebold et Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. ii. 14, t. 106 (1842). 



Abies Araragi, Loudon, Trees and Shrubs, 1036 (1842). 



A tree attaining in Japan about 100 feet in height and 12 feet in girth, forming in 

 England a small tree with a short bole and a dense crown of foliage, with numerous 

 branches and pendulous branchlets. 



Young shoots greyish in colour and quite glabrous. Leaves pectinately 

 arranged, variable in size, the smaller on the upper side of the shoot, some of 

 these being directed outwards at right angles to the general plane of the foliage. 

 They are oblong, uniform in width, \ to i inch long, shining and dark green above 

 with a median furrow continued to the rounded and emarginate apex ; lower surface 

 with green midrib and two narrow well-defined white bands of stomata ; margin 

 quite entire. Buds reddish, ovoid, slightly acute at the apex : scales glabrous on the 

 surface, ciliate in margin. 



Cones elongated ovoid, on a stalk about \ inch long, pendulous or deflected, 

 composed of five series of orbicular scales, which are rounded at the apex and at 

 the base and have a slightly bevelled margin. Bract included, very short and 

 bifid. Seed with a long wing decurrent half-way along its outer side. 



This tree has been much confused with the other Japanese species, from which 

 it is very distinct in botanical characters. Koehne's proposed name, Ts2iga Araragi, 

 is not adopted by us, the name Sieboldii being the first one under the correct genus 

 Tsuga. (A. H.) 



1 Note in Kew herbarium, and Nicholson in Woods and Forests, 1S84, p. 243. 

 ' Card. C/iron. xxvi. 72 (l8S6). 3 Garden aiid Forest, x. 491 (1S97). 



