PINETUM DANICUM. 



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Name derived from mikros, small, and cachrys, a fir cone, the 

 cones being remarkably small. 



This genus consists of but one prostrate evergreen shrub found 

 abundantly on the hills of Port Cypress, and on the top of the western 

 mountains of Van Diemen's Land, It is cultivated in greenhouses. 



M. tetragona. Hook. fil. in Lond. Journ. of Bot. iv. 150 (not 

 Arch, in Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. 51), and Fl. of Tasm. t. C. B. (in 

 parte) ; Carr. Man. des PI. iv. 376 (in parte), and Tr. Gen. Conif. 62 

 (in parte); Gord. Pinet. IM (in parte); Carr. Pev. Hort. 1866, 270 

 (cmi ic), Therosphxra Hooheriana mas. Arch. I.e. Arthrotaxis (?) 

 tetragona, Hook. Ic. t. 560 (Gunn, n. 367), and Fl. of Tasm, pi. 100. 

 Dacrydium sp. (?). 



Habitat. — On the summit of some of the western mountains of 

 Tasmania. 



Wintered indoors. 



23. SAXEGOTHEA. — Lindl. in Paxt. Flow. Gard. 1851-2, 

 ni, and in Journ. Hort. Soc. vi. 258; CI. Gay, Fl. Chil. v. 

 411; Carr. Conif. 481, 684; Gord. Pin. 300; Henk. and Hochst. 

 Nadelh. 410; Pari, in D. C. Prodr. xvi. 2, 497; Gord. Pin. 300 ; 

 Eichler in Engl, and Prantl. Natiirl. Pflf. ii. 103 ; Veitch, Man. 

 Conif. 315 ; Beissner, Nadelholzk. 16, 135. 



Flowers monoecious ; male flowers in spikes, female in globular 

 heads. 



Fruit composed of several thickened scales, formed into a solid 

 fleshy cone. 



Seeds pale brown, glossy, oval, with a short, thin, jagged membrane, 

 enveloping the base of the seed only. 



Leaves alternate, scattered, more or less two-ranked, leathery, and 

 fiat. 



Named in compliment to his Poyal Highness Prince Albert. 

 A large bush or small tree ; found on the mountains of Pata- 

 gonia. 



S. conspicua, Lindl. in Paxt. Flower Gard. 1851-2, 111. 



Habitat. — Yaldivian and Chilian mountains ; Patagonia. 



Introduced into England in 1849 by William Lobb. 



Only young plants have been tested out of doors in Denmark. 

 The hard winter of 1890-91 did not hurt the plants, which were only 

 covered with dead leaves over the roots and some few Spruce branches 

 over the tops. 



24. PODOCARPUS.— L'Herit. Mss. ; Kunth in Humb. and 

 Bonpl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. ii. 2 ; Rich. Conif. 124 ; Endl. Gen. PI. 

 262, n. 1800, and Conif. 206 ; P. Brown in Horsf. PI. Jav. Rar. 35 ; 

 Carr. Conif. 436, and ed. 2, 643; Gord. Pin. 268; Henk. and 

 Hochst. Nfidelh. 377. Ta,xi sp. Thunb. Willd. Juniperi sp. Roxb, 



