1 45 2 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



which are about f in. long, with a slender cuneate claw, and a thickened oval 

 expanded lamina, bearing on the back a large ovate acute process. 



This species was found by Gunn and Archer at the falls of the Meander river, 

 and along rivulets near the summit of the western mountains in Tasmania ; and is 

 said by Rodway to occur on Field Range and near Mount La Perouse. It appears 

 to occur at higher altitudes than the other species, reaching 4000 ft. 



A. laxifolia was also introduced by Archer in 1857, and appears to be the 

 most successful of the three species in cultivation in this country. The largest 

 specimens are in Cornwall, where Elwes measured in 191 1 a fine tree at Scorrier, 

 38 ft. high and 3 ft. 9 in. in girth ; from it three seedlings were raised about twenty 

 years ago, which are now 15 to 20 ft. high. Another fine specimen at Penjerrick 

 was 32 ft. by 2 ft. 8 in. in the same year. One in Mr. R. Gill's nursery at 

 Tremough near Penryn, measured 27 ft. high, and was bearing fruit in January 

 19 1 2. .Another, 17 ft. high, occurs at Trewidden near Penzance. 



There is also a good tree at Menabilly, growing at 100 feet above sea-level in 

 an exposed position, which was planted in 1880, and reported to be a perfect 

 pyramid, 12 ft. high in 1891 ; it was 27 ft. high and 3 ft. in girth in January 19 12. 

 A branch of this tree with cones was figured ^ by Dr. Masters. 



This species appears to be very hardy, and succeeds as far north as Durris 

 in Kincardineshire, where a tree about 10 ft. high produced cones in 1909, from 

 which numerous seedlings were raised ; some of these have been planted out at 

 Bayfordbury and in the Cambridge Botanic Garden. 



In Ireland, there is a fine specimen at Kilmacurragh, 28 ft. high in 1912 ; and 

 a smaller one at Castle wellan. (A. H.) 



ATHROTAXIS CUPRESSOIDES 



Athrotaxis cupressoides, Don, in Trans. Linn. Soc, xviii. 173, t. 13, fig. 2 (1839); W. J. Hooker, 

 Icon. Plant, t. 559 (1843) ; J. D. Hooker in Lond. Journ. Bot. iv. 148 (1845), and M. 

 Tasman. i. 354 (i860); Masters, in Gard. Chron. xxiv. 270, fig. 60 (1885), and ii. 725, 

 figs. 144, 145 (1887); Kent, Veitch's Man. Conif. 261 (1900); Rodway, Tasmanian Flora, 

 277 (1903); Baker and Smith, Pims of Australia, 313 (1910). 



Cunninghamia cupressoides, Zuccarini, in Siebold, Fl. Jap. ii. 9, note (1844). 



A tree, attaining 40 ft. in height and 6 feet in girth, with ascending branches. 

 Branchlets pseudo-opposite or alternate, densely covered with scale-like leaves, 

 which appear to be in opposite decussate pairs, but in reality are in a spiral 

 arrangement. Leaves on the ultimate branchlets, similar to those in Cupressus, 

 homomorphic, densely appressed, closely imbricated, rhombic-ovate, about \ in. 

 long, obtuse at the apex ; ventral surface entirely concealed ; dorsal surface keeled 

 and marked with white stomatic dots in lines on the two sides ; margin denticulate 



1 Gard. Chron. xxiv. 584, fig. 134 (1885) and>«r». Linn. Soc. {Bot.) xxii. 201, fig. 26 (1886). In Card. Chron. 

 xxiv. 660 (1885), it is stated that a tree produced cones in 1875 in Mr. Robert Loder's garden at Whittlebury, Towcester; 

 but this cannot now be found and was probably cut down some years ago. 



