PIXETUM DANICUM. 



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P. Billardieni, Mirb. in Mem. Mus. xiii. 76. P. asjiUniifoUa, Hook. fil. 

 in Lond. Journ. of Bot. iv. 151. Thalamia aspleniifolia, Spreng. 

 Syst. iii. 890. PhyllocJadus serratifoUa, Noisette, ex Gord. Pinet. 

 suppl. I.e. ; Hook. Fl. of Tasm. i. 358. Taxus serratifoUa, 'Nohette, 

 ex Gord. Lc. 



Habitat. — Tasmania, on low and moist ground. 



Introduced into Europe in 1825. 



Wintered indoors. 



P. trichomanoides, Don in Lamb. Pinet. ed. 2, ii. app. ; A. 

 Cunningh. in Ann. of Kat. Hist. i. 211 ; Hook. Ic. t. 549-551 ; 

 Endl. Syn. Conif. 235 ; Lindl. and Gord. Journ. Hort. Soc. v. 226 ; 

 Knight, Syn. Conif. 49 ; Hook. Fl. of New Zeal. 235 ; Carr. Man. 

 des PI. iv. 377, and Tr. Gen. Conif. 499 ; Gord. Pinet. 142, and 

 suppl. 43. P. rhomhoidalis, A. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. 363 (not L. C. 

 Rich.). 



Habitat. — New Zealand, in the forests near Tamesin. 

 Wintered indoors. 



A graceful tree, with a straight cylindrical stem and spreading 

 branches, growing 60 or 70 feet high, and 3 or 4 feet in diameter, found 

 in the forests of Tamesin, on the northern island of New Zealand, 

 where it is called by the natives Tanekaha and Toa-Toa. The timber is 

 hard and heavy, and the bark is used by the natives of New Zealand 

 for dying their mats of a red or black colour. 



SERIES B. 



Tpjbe lY.-^PODOCARPH^. 



21. BACBYDIITM.— Sol. ex Forsfc. PI. Esc. 80 ; Lamb. Pin. 

 ed. 1, 93 ; Rich. Conif. 127, t. 2, f. 2 ; Endl. Gen. PI. n. 1801, 

 and Conif. 224 ; Hook. fil. Fl. of New Zeal. 233, and Fl. of Tasm. 

 357 ; Carr. Conif, ed. 1, 485, and ed. 2, 690 ; Gord. Pin. 73 ; 

 Henk. and Hochst. Nadelh. 405. Allania, Colenso in Lond. Journ. 

 of Bot. i. 301. Thalamia, Spreng. Syst. Yeg. iii. 890. Microcachrys, 

 Hook, fil, in Lond. Journ. of Bot. iv. 149, and Fl. of Tasm. 

 358, t. 100 ; Pari, in D. C. Prodr. xvi. 2, 494 ; Brongn. and Gris. 

 in Bull. Soc. Bot. Tr. xvi. 328, and in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Par. iv. 

 5, t. 2 ; Eichl. in Engl, and Prantl. Natiirl. Pfif. ii. 106. 



Flowers dioecious. 



Fruit fleshy and erect. 



Seeds with a hard, bony shell, resting in a short, cup-shaped, fleshy 

 aril. 



Leaves needle-shaped or scale-like^ and opposite. 

 Name derived from duKpv (dakru), a tear, in reference to the 

 gummy exudation of the trees. 



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