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and translucent. Leaves on the older branchlets increasing in size, becoming dark 

 brown and about ^ in. long in the fifth or sixth year. 



Cones, nodding on curved branchlets, f in. in diameter; scales lo or 12, much 

 smaller than in the other species, less than J in. long, with a triangular recurved 

 process on the middle of the expanded lamina. 



This species is said by Rodway to be a small erect tree, about 40 ft. high, 

 found in the western mountains of Tasmania, near St. Clair and to the west and 

 south-west of Field Range. It rarely exceeds 5 or 6 feet in girth ; but Sir J. 

 Hooker mentions one very old and hollow tree, which was 1 5 ft. in girth at 3^ feet 

 from the ground. Baker and Smith state that the timber resembles in all respects 

 that of A. selaginoides. 



It was introduced in 1857 ^1 M*"- Archer at the same time as the other species, 

 and resembles them in cultivation ; but it is rare and has not attained in this 

 country as great a height as A. laxifolia. In Cornwall, a tree 20 ft. high was bearing 

 cones in Gill's nursery, near Penryn, in January 191 2; and a smaller specimen, 

 also bearing fruit, occurs at Trewidden. Kent mentioned in 1900 a fine specimen 

 at Upcott, near Barnstaple ; which, Mr. W. Harris informs us, has lately lost its 

 leader and is now only 13 ft. high. In Hillier's nursery at Shroner, near Winchester, 

 a tree, planted in 1887, was 12 ft, high in 1910, and had commenced to bear cones 

 in small quantity. There is also a small specimen at Brickendon Grange, Hertford, 

 which was 5 ft. high in 1 9 1 1 . 



In Ireland, a fine specimen bearing fruit at Kilmacurragh was 21 ft. high in 

 March 19 12; while another at Powerscourt^ was 22 ft. high. A thriving tree at 

 Castlewellan, 15 ft. high, bore 18° of frost without injury in February 1912. 



(A. H.) 



' Erroneously called A. Doniana in Gard. Chron. xlix. 219 (1911). 



