PRINCE ALBERT S TEW. 



315 



This fine variety originated at Avignon, in France, about the year 

 1850.* 



A variegated and a pendulous variety have been brought under the 

 notice of horticulturists, the former having some of its leaves striped 

 with pale yellow, and the latter having its terminal branchlets pendulous. 

 The colouring of the variegata is indistinct, and the weeping habit 

 of the pmduJa adds nothing to the beauty of the normal form, 

 but rather detracts from it. These varieties are both of Continental 

 origin. 



V.— SAXE-GOTELEA {Lindley). Prince Albert's Yew. 



Saxe-Gothaaa is one of a small group of Coniferous trees indi- 

 genous to the southern portion of the Cordilleras of the Andes, 

 which are distinguished from their northern congeners by several 

 peculiarities of structure and aspect. In the present subject the 

 singularity of structure is seen chiefly in the fructification, which 

 includes forms peculiar to several distinct genera. According to Dr. 

 Lindley, Saxe-Gothsea has the male flowers of a Podocarp, the 

 female flowers of a Dammara, the fruit of a Juniper, the seed of a 

 Dacrydium, and the general aspect, of a Tew. It is monoecious, 

 but the male and female flowers are produced on different branches. 



Saxe-Gothsea was named in compliment to the late Prince Consort. 



Saxe-Gothsea conspicua is a low tree, with spreading branches 

 densely clothed with foliage of a lighter green than that of the 

 common Tew. The leaves are scattered, but sometimes partially 

 two-rowed on the branchlets, about 1 inch long, tapering, acuminate, 

 and pointing forwards, many of them slightly falcate, with a single 

 salient middle nerve above, and marked with two glaucous lines 



beneath. 



Habitat. — The Andes of Valdivia and Patagonia. 

 Introduced by us in 1849 through our collector, William Lobb. 

 The Saxe-Gothsea is but moderately hardy in England; its growth 

 * Carriere, Traite Qin., p. 713. 



