FITZEOYA 



GONIFEBS 



LIBOCEDEUS 975 



There is no intention of adding to the existing confusion of names. Those 

 given by Dr. Masters in the ' Conifer Conference Eeport ' will be used in this 

 work, as being most generally acceptable ; while with one or two trifling 

 exceptions the main divisions of the order will be on the lines laid down by 

 Bentham and Hooker, the distinguished authors of the ' Genera Plantarum.' 



Except where otherwise stated, all the Conifers mentioned are evergreen. 



Tribe I. — The Cypress Tribe {CupressimeiB) Flowers monoecious or dioecious. 



Cones roundish or oblong ; scales usually confluent with the bracts, fleshy, leathery, 

 or woody when ripe. Seeds with or without wings. Trees or shrubs usually with the 

 adult leaves adpressed, opposite, whorled in 3-4 rows, small, scale-like, rarely linear. 



CALLITRIS. — A genus of tender like OalUtris. At Powerscourt, co. Wiok- 



genus 

 shrubs or small trees with roundish or 3-4- 

 angled, sometimes jointed branches, and 

 small trapeziform leaves in whorls of 3-4, 

 or opposite and decussate (4-ranked). 

 Flowers monoecious. Male flowers in 

 spikes, anthers crested with 2 or more 

 lobes. Cones globular or somewhat 4- 

 angled, and composed of 4-valved woody 

 scales, the alternate pair much smaller. 



C. quadrivalvis {TetracUnis articu- 

 lata). — Arar tree. — A graceful North 

 African tree or shrub 15-20 ft. high, with 

 flattened jointed leaves, and'flowers and 

 cones as described above. 



Culture and Propagation. — This is the 

 best known species, and except in the 

 south of England and Ireland requires 

 greenhouse protection in winter. It likes 

 a light sandy loam, and may be increased 

 by seeds sown in spring under glass or 

 by cuttings of the ripened shoots in 

 autumn under a handlight. 



It is said that the woodwork of the 

 cathedral of Cordova, which was built in 

 the 9th century as a Moorish mosque, is 

 of this tree. 



FITZROYA. — A genus of much- 

 branched trees or shrubs with small ter- 

 nately whorled or 4-ranked loosely or 

 closely imbricated leaves. Flowers dioe- 

 cious. Cones star-like, having their axes 

 terminating in 3 soft club-like glands or 

 scales, and consisting of 9 scales, 3 in each 

 whorl, the upper ones only seed-bearing. 

 Seeds winged. 



F. patagonica A native of the moun- 

 tains of Western Patagonia, Chili &c., 

 forming a tree 50-80 ft. high, having 

 slender spreading branches incurved at 

 the tips, and furnished with small ovate 

 oblong flat blunt sessile leaves in 2-4 

 rows. Flowers and cones as above. 



Culture and, Propagation. — This 

 species grows well in ordinary garden soil, 

 and may be increased by seeds or cuttings 



low, there is a specimen about 20 ft. high — 

 perhaps the largest in the kingdom. 



LIBOCEDRUS (Incense Cbdae) A 



genus of handsome Arbor Vitse-like trees, 

 with flattened branches and small flat- 

 tened 4-ranked appressed or spreading 

 leaves. Flowers monoecious or dioecious ; 

 male catkins nearly cylindrical ; female 

 ones sohtary and round. Cones oval, 

 more or less obtuse, woody, and composed 

 of 4-6 flat and slightly concave scales in 

 opposite pairs face to face and not over- 

 lapping ; the middle pair only seed- 

 bearing. Seeds with 2 unequal wings. 

 Seed leaves 2. 



Culture and Propagation. — The In- 

 cense Cedars are easily raised from seeds 

 sown under glass in spring, the seedlings 

 being afterwards planted out after harden- 

 ing off. Cuttings of the partially or wholly 

 ripened shoots will root in sandy soil under 

 handlights, or in gentle heat, during August 

 and September. 



L. chilensis (Thuya chilensis) A 



handsome densely branched tree which 

 attains a height of 60-80 ft. on the ChiUan 

 Andes, but not more than 12-20 ft. in the 

 British Islands. Leaves glaucous-green, 

 bluntly oblong trigonous, appressed on 

 flattened spreading and drooping branches, 

 somewhat ascending towards the top. 

 Cones 5 in. long, drooping on short stalks. 

 The variety argentea has paler colom-ed 

 leaves than the type, and virid/is is a bright 

 green form, devoid of a glaucous fringe. 



Culture dc. as above. This species 

 will stand 2° or 3^ of frost without injury 

 in sheltered spots. 



L. decurrens {Thuya eraigiana). — 

 A beautiftil and distinct Conifer from the 

 mountains of California, where it attains a 

 height of 50-150 ft. at elevations ranging 

 between 3000 and 8500 ft. Leaves small 

 and linear, bright glossy green, imbricat- 



