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Lastly, in the Genera Plantarum 18824, Mr. Bentham and I have 
distinguished. Pinus, Picea, Link, Abies, Link, Tsuga, Pseudotsuga, 
Larix, and .Cedrus, to which must now be added Pseudolarix and 
probably ser elecnses both at that time very imperfectly known. 
6 . Masters published tee ef the Linnean 
AN xxii. -169- 212, tt. 2-10, with 32 woodcut figures in the 
text) some “ Contributions to the History of certain Conifers.” "This 
was followed in 1890 by a “ Rev view of some points in the comparative 
and in 1895 by* Notes on the Genera of Tazacec. and Conifera” 
igure: Linn. Soc., xxx., pp. 
E Conifora appeared in em er and Prautl's Die Natiirlichen 
Pflaazenfamilien. He. classifies the genera under two or divi- 
sions: Pinoidee and Taxoidee. The former he again divides ad 
Abietinee and Cupressinee, with several ternary divisions, and t 
latter into Podocarpec an aec. ‘The genera are rena with few 
exceptions, as they are by Bentham and Hooker; but he retains 
Chamecyparis, Thuiopsis and gedoen: x, and iiia Janae in 
Tsuga and Prumnopitys in st edosaze 
In 1891 L. Beissner published a eh E. der Nadelholzhu 
This was preceded by a r Hands uch der Coniferen-Benennung (1887), 
followed by two supplements (1891-2) on Einheitliche Coniferen- 
Benennung d, Beissner deals critically with the numerous natural and 
garden ieties and hybrids. He has also paid much attention to 
E dcum. though he accepts familiar names rather than revive 
obscure ones on the rule of priority. 
In 1892 the Royal Horticultural Society held a * Conifer Conference,” 
and the papers read thereat form the fourteenth volume of the Journal 
of the Society. "This is one of the most interesting volumes issued by 
the Society, containing a great variety of valuable information concerning 
Conifere, iucluding a general introduction and a list of the species 
cultivated i in Great Britain and Ireland, by Dr. M. T. Masters, 
In 1894 H. Baillon lesan des Plantes, xii. pp. 1-45) a 
an account of the order, with a synopsis of the genera, which he ~ 
reduced to 24, — a, Casuarina. He divides the order into sigh 
‘series,” na mel Taxées, Cupressées, Junipérées, Athrotaxées, 
Nagéides Araucariées, Pinées, and Casuarinées. The inclusion of the 
last is inexplicable, and some changes in nomenclature will not meet 
with general approval, Belis, Salisb. is revived for Cunninghamia, R 
Br. ; Podocarpus, Labill. for Phylloctadus, Rich.; A gathis, Salisb. 
for "sett Lamk., and Nageia, Gertn. for Podocarpus, 
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the concurrence of Sir Joseph Hooker. Of these Dr. ters has been 
so good as to furnish the following brief explanation :— 
