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there remains but one argument for. preferring Don’s nomenclature, 
which is, that Linnzus called the Silver Fir Pinus Tiens and the Spruce 
P. Abies assuming that he was following the practice of the ancients, 
Owing to the great merit and utility of Loudon's Arboretum, his 
nomenclature has hitherto been universally adopted in the United 
ngdom. It contains descriptions of about 70 species of Abietinee. 
In 1841 Link (in Linnea, vol. xv., p. 481) reviewed the whole Tribe 
of Abietinee, retaining, as before, Pinus, Picea, Abies, Larix, and 
Cedrus, and enumerating 52 speci 
In 1841-46, Antoine’s Die Coniferen appe in which all. the 
Abietinee are referred to ^ with sections of Pinus proper, Larix, 
Cedrus, i Don, Abies, Don, and Tsuga; he describes 90 species. 
In 1842 Spach, in ees ' Histoire Naturelle. des Végétaux, adopted 
Pinus, biek including under it as sections Picea, Link, Tsuga, and 
Endlicher, in the same year, in his Genera Plantarum reverted to 
ERIT practice of including ‘all under Pinus, but made four sections 
us proper, Picea, Link, Abies, Link, and Larix, including 
yum the same author's S ynopsis Coniferarum, published two years 
later, he maintains the genus ere entire, as before, but subdivides it 
into 11 sections, with 109 spec 
In 1850 Lindley and Gordon Published (in the Journal of the Horti- 
cultural Society, vol. v.) * An enumeration onifere cultivated in 
Great Britain," where two gen only are adopted, Pinus and Abies, 
and the latter is acer gy gets "Firs (including Spruces), Larches, and 
Cedars, with 119 spee 
Meisner in 1836-43. published his Mis coded Plantarum Vascularum, 
wherein he includes all Abietinee under Pinus, with, as sections, Pinus 
proper, Picea, Link, Abies, Link, and Jn including Cedrus. 
In 1855 Carriére’s Traité général des pad ères appeared ; he keeps | 
Pinus, Abies, Link, Picea, Link, Lar Cedrus, and Tsuga, 
which includes Pseudotsuga. This work peto, 133 species, 
many of which are now ranked as varieties. 
In 1858 appeared the first edition of Gordon's Pinetum, in which he 
maintains Pinus, Abies, Don Jara aoe and CM Sac 
Picea, Don, Larix, Cedrus s, and Pseudolarix. He enumerates 
species, of which many are imperfectly gud i 
In 1865 Henkel and Hochstetter published their Die Coniferen, 
with the following arrangement, Pinus, Abies (including ie Tape, 
Abies, Link, Tsuga, and Pseudotsuga), Cedrus, Larix 
genus Pseudolarix, Gord. They describe 130 species, which aout 
be. 
In 1867 the second edition of Carriére’s Zvazté was published, in 
which all the genera of the first edition are retained together with 
Pseudotsuga ve Keteleeria, and 153 species are described, excluding 
many dubious o 
In 1868 Pailatore’s monograph of the order appeared in the 16th 
volume of De Candolle’s Prodromus. The ge Pinus. is divided 
into two sub-genera, inus proper for the Pines, and Sapinus ; which 
latter includes as sections only Picea, Link, Abies, Link, Cedrus, 
t Pseudolarix, Tsuga, and Pseudotsuga. The species describe 
cR 1875 oes second edition of Gordon’s Pinetum was p lish 
whic me genera are retained as in the 1858 sition, with 150 
species, 
