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PINACE^. 



Ch^TOCLADUS AlTISSIMA: Lofty Bristle-Branched AUied 

 Pine. 



This is found in Sicily, Spain, the Canary Islands ; also indigenous to 

 the western regions of the Mediterranean : a climbing shrub, attaining 

 heights of from fifteen to twenty feet. 



Ch^TOCLADUS DistaCHYS: Twin-Spiked Bristle-Branched 

 Allied Pine. 



Found on the shores of the Mediterranean, Barbary, Egypt, Greece, 

 Italy, Portugal, and Spain ; a curious, dwarf, erect-branched shrub ; 

 never exceeding a yard in height. 



Ch^TOCLADUS MoNOSTACHYS : Spiked Bristle-branched 

 Allied Pine. 



This also is indigenous to the Mediterranean coasts, and to be found 

 in Asia and Siberia. It forms a dwarf, tubercled, erect-branched 

 shrub, never exceeding a yard in height. 



These three kinds are all the members of this little family or group 

 f the Allied Pines, which require notice here ; and are only useful 

 for adding variety to, or for increasing our lists or collections of curious 

 and ornamental plants. 



§ 2. Phyllogladus : The Leaf-Branched Allied Pine. 



From Greek (pvWov, phyllon, '^sl leaf;" and KXaSog, Jclados, "a 

 branch resemblance of their branches to leaves. 



Flowers, male and female, on the same plant, but separate ; terminal 

 and in clusters, fertile ones generally in twos or threes in close heads. 



Leaves, minute scale-formations, branchlets, leaf-like formations, 

 fan-shaped, wedge-shaped, rhomboid, toothed, lobed, or cut-like, and- 

 feather-nerved, some pinnate with wing-like appendages, and of various 

 shades of green and rusty-brown colour. 



Fruit, in connected heads two or three in a cluster, generally small, 

 with fleshy disks, each containing a small nut-like seed, with a thin 

 shell, having their apex bare, and their base enclosed in the fleshy disk. 



Phyllogladus Rhomboidalis : The Ehomboidal Allied 



Pine. 



This forms a most picturesque, branching tree, attaining heights of 

 from thirty to fifty feet ; but being from Tasmania's humid clime, and 

 w^arm volcanic soil, it is too tender and delicate for the British Isles. 

 There are the following two quasi-species or varieties of it, viz. ; — 

 Glaiica, (a more glaucous form, ) and Hypopliylla^ (a kind with more 

 numerous and distinct under-leaves, and more regularly oval-rhomboid 



