G.1001 



CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION 



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the trees) large, roundish, about 7 in. in diameter, erect, solitary ; 

 seeds wedge-shaped, 1 to 2 in. long. A large, peculiar, beautiful, 

 conical tree, with much the appearance of a cactus ; not fitted to our 

 climate, although a few specimens may be found growing quite well 

 near the coast south of Philadelphia. From the mountains of Chile. 



GENUS 99. CUNNINGHAMIA. 



A genus of but one species. The cone-scales are very 

 small, but the bracts are large, thick, and serrate. 



Cunninghamia Sin6nsis, E. Br. 

 (CUNNINGHAMIA.) Leaves \y 2 to 2^ 

 in. long, flat, rigid, numerous, alter- 

 nate, somewhat serrulate; the leaf 

 gradually increases in width from 

 the acute tip to the base, which is 

 decurrent on the stem and about 

 j in. wide. Cones 1 to 1^ in. long, 

 nearly globular, erect, very persis- 

 tent, mostly clustered, sessile; the 

 scale is a mere transverse ridge, but 

 the bract is large and prominent, like 

 a triangular-hastate, dilated leaf. A 

 very handsome tree, from China, 

 which does not succeed very well in this region except in protected 

 situations. 



GENUS 100. SCIADOPITYS. 



Cones elliptical or cylindrical, large, obtuse. Leaves 

 evergreen, somewhat flattened, arranged in distant whorls 

 around the stems, and spreading in all directions. 



Sciadopitys verticillata, S. and Z. 

 (UMBRELLA-PINE.) Leaves 2 to 4 in. 

 long, \ in. wide, linear, obtuse, smooth, 

 persistent, sessile, entire, in whorls of 30 

 to 40 at the nodes and extremity of the 

 branches. Cones 3 by \ l / 2 in - Scales 

 wedge-shaped, corrugated, overlapping, 

 coriaceous, persistent; bracts adherent, 

 a. verticillata. broad, and smooth. A beautiful, tall, 



conical, slow-growing tree, with the branches whorled. Eecently in- 

 troduced ; hardy in the New England States. 



