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LIST OF CONIFEES AND TAXADS 



IN CULTIVATION IN THE OPEN AIR IN GREAT 

 BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 



By Dr. Maxwell T. Masteks, F.R.S., Corresponding Member 

 of the Institute of France. 



INTEODUCTION. 



Objects of the Compilation — Authorities cited before and after the date of 

 Parlatore's Monograph (1868) — More Kecent Bibliography — Abbre- 

 viations — Living Specimens examined — Herbarium Collections — 

 Nomenclature— Synopsis of Tribes and Genera — Alphabetical List of 

 Genera and Species. 



The following list comprises an enumeration of all the 

 Conifers and Taxads known to be hardy in our islands, together 

 with the names of a few others grown under glass and which 

 may be of importance for naturalisation in some of our colonies. 



In drawing up the list of genera, Bentham and Hooker's 

 " Genera Plantarum " has been followed as the standard authority. 

 A few deviations from it have been made in accordance with 

 more recently obtained knowledge. 



Parlatore's monograph of the Conifer^e in De Candolle's 

 "Prodromus " has been taken as the basis for the enumeration 

 of the- species, but with considerable modification. This mono- 

 graph is cited throughout because it is the most complete of 

 any up to the date of publication (1868), and especially because 

 it is very rich in references to books and to figures. In 

 consequence it has in many cases not been deemed necessary to 

 cite full bibliographical details, but merely to refer the reader to 

 the volume of the " Prodromus " in which the desired informa- 

 tion may be found. 



More complete reference has been made to illustrated books, 

 and to works published since the issue of Parlatore's monograph 

 (1868) ; but as the requirements of cultivators have been the 

 main points attended to, references of value to botanists and 

 physiologists only have been sometimes passed over. 



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