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ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



XXV. — A Catalogue of Coniferous Plants, icith their 

 Synonyms. 



The number of persons interested in the cultivation of Coni- 

 ferous plants is very great. The traffic in them lias become a 

 considerable branch of retail trade. The present year has wit- 

 nessed the despatch of a young collector to Oregon, chiefly for 

 the sake of tiie Conifers that abound there. The nurserymen's 

 lists are full of errors, from which, indeed, books of science are 

 far from being exempt ; for they both contain repetitions of the 

 self-same plant, or of trifling varieties of it, under different names ; 

 so that buyers are much in want of a guide on which they may 

 rely with reasonable confidence, botli for the completion of their 

 collections and in making their purchases. 



Under these circumstances, it has been thought desirable to 

 prepare a catalogue, into which all known species may be intro- 

 duced, whether actually growing in this country or not. Fortu- 

 nately one of the most talented of Continental botanists had 

 already carried out the task so far as to render it comparatively 

 easy,* and to leave to the present compilers little more labour 

 than that of abstracting the main facts, introducing newly dis- 

 covered species, and making corrections in the list of old ones. 



The only abbreviations employed are h , which signifies hardy, 

 and | for species not yet introduced. Those which have no 

 mark connected with their names are understood to be too deli- 

 cate for the neighbourhood of London. — [J. L. and G. G.] 



Order I. — CUPRESSINE^. The CYPRESS RACE. 



1. Juniperus, Linn.— Junipers, 



"fl. J. drupacea, Labill. 



J. oxycedrus y, Lam. 



2. J. macrocarpa, h Sibth. . 



J. oblongata, Gussone. 

 J. Lobelii, Gussone. 

 ? J. Biassoletii, Link. 



A bush ; fruit j Levant, 

 blackish. 



bush ; 



large 

 lit g 

 purplish black. 



fruit glaucous, 



Greece, Sicily ,&c, 

 in sandy places. 



* Synopsis Coniferarum, auctore Stephano Endlicher. Sangalli, 1847. Svo., p. 368. 



