PINETUM DANICUBi. 



BIO 



T, nucifera, Sieb. and Zucc. Fl. Jap. ii. t. 129. Taxus nucifera^ 

 Kaempf. Amoen. Exofc. 814, 815, cum ic. Podocarpus nucifera, Pers. 

 Syn. ii. 633. Caryotaxus nucifera, Zucc. Mss. ; Henk. and Hochst. 

 Nadelh. 366. Podocarpus coreana, Van Houtte, Catal. P. coreacea, 

 hort. 



It is found in Japan sparingly on the mountains, and also on the 

 west coast of Nippon and Sikok, at an elevation of from 1,625-3,250 

 feet. It was introduced into European gardens about 1818. 



Wintered in a cold frame in Denmark. 



19. GINKGO.— Kgempf. Amoen. Exot. 811, 813 ; Linn. Mant. 

 ii. 313, 314. Salisburia, Smith in Linn. Trans, iii. 330 ; Rich. Conif. 

 133, t. 3 ; Endl. Gen. PI. n. 1803, and Conif. 236 ; Carr. Conif. 

 503 ; Gord. Pin. 298 ; Henk. and Hochst. Nadelh. 373. Pterophyllus, 

 Nelson, Pin. ; Pari, in D. C. Prodr. xvi. 2, 498, 506 ; Van Tiegh. in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, x. 276 ; Wats. Dendr. Brit. t. 168 (Salisburia) ; 

 C. Koch, Dendr. ii. 107 ; Eichl. in Engl, and Prantl. Natiirl. Pflf. ii. 

 108 ; Beissner, Nadelholzk. 189. 



Flowers dioecious ; the males in spikes, axillary, and without 

 pedicels ; the female in terminal clusters, on long pedicels. 



Fruit drupaceous, or covered with a fleshy pulp, and smooth ex- 

 ternally, mostly single from abortion, and enclosed at the base in a 

 small fleshy cup. 



Seed.s solitary in each fruit, and covered with a smooth, hard, bony 

 shell. 



Leaves fan-shaped, on long petioles, lobed, jagged on the outer 

 margins, and covered on both sides with minute radiating nerves. 

 Cotyledons two. 



The name Salisburia, by which the Ginkgo is often known, was 

 given in compliment to R. A. Salisbury, F.R.S., an eminent English 

 botanist. 



A large deciduous tree, native of China and Japan. 



G. bilolba, Linn. Mant. ii. 313, 314. Salisburia adiantifolia^ 

 Salisb. in Linn. Trans, iii. 330. 



The Japanese names for this tree are Ginan " (deciduous tree), 

 and " Fusi-kin-go " (buds crowned with leaves in summer). The 

 Chinese call it " Ginkgo " (full of leafless buds in winter), in addition 

 to "Ginan," "Quachow," and " Gin-ki-go " (a tree without leaves in 

 winter). 



Habitat. — Northern China. It is frequently met with in Japan, 

 where it was most probably introduced. 



Introduced into England about 1754. It had been made known to 

 Europeans sixty years previously by Ksempfer (Veitch). 



G. b. macropliylla, hort. Scdisburia adiantifolia laciniata, 

 Carriere. Salisburia macropliylla, Regnier. G. biloba laciniata, hort. 



This variety difl'ers from the species in its leaves being very much 



