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a plant collector by the Royal Horticultural Society), is a large 

 pyramidal tree with horizontal spreading branches. It attains a 

 height of from 100 to 150 feet, and from 10 to 11 feet in circum- 

 ference three feet from the ground ; and is not a large bush or 

 small tree from 12 to 15 feet high, as originally stated by Dr. Siebold 

 in his "Flora Japonica." The Japanese, however, have several 

 varieties, among which some are dwarf bushes, others beautifully 

 variegated, and others with leaves varying from two to four inches or 

 more in length, and two lines broad ; but all linear, a little sickle- 

 shaped, blunt, or slightly notched at the points, leathery, double- 

 ribbed, with a shallow channel running through them, and all spreading 

 out horizontally like the ribs of a parasol, and so closely clustered 

 alternately as to look as if they stood in whorls of from thirty to forty 

 together at the ends of all the branchlets. Mr. Fortune says they are 

 of a deep green colour, while, according to Dr. Siebold, they must be 

 of a yellowish-green, and remain on the tree for about three years, by 

 which time each branch has from one to three parasols on it, according 

 to its age ; but in the fourth year they fall off. The cones are elliptic 

 or cylindrical, obtuse at the ends, and from 2^ to 3 inches long, and 

 1^ inch in diameter, and not unlike those of Finns Cemhra, but longer, 

 and require two years to ripen. The seed-leaves are in twos, and 

 very similar to those of the common Yew. 



Dr. Siebold considers the Parasol Fir the finest Conifer of Japan, 

 and one which presents an appearance as strange as elegant, in conse- 

 quence of its innumerable branchings, which always end in a parasol- 

 like tuft of leaves. Dr. Lindley says the Sciadopitys is nearly related 

 to the genus Wellingtonia, a statement which seems very questionable, 

 for, as far as my knowledge goes, the cones only bear any resemblance, 

 and that not very marked. 



Its Japanese names are "Koja-Maki" (the wild or Mount Kojasan 

 Maki) and "Inu-Maki" (the spurious or false Maki) ; while those 

 of the Chinese are " Kin-sung-Maki " (the pale yellow Maki) and 

 " Kinsjo " (common yellow), on account of the leaves being of a pale 

 or yellowish-green colour when young. 



Tribe Sfl.-ABIETINE/E. 



80. PllSrUS.— Linn. Gen. ed. 2, n. 879 ; Endl. Conif. 81, and 

 Gen. PI. 260; Pari. Fl. Ital. iv. 31. Pinus, Abies, and Larix, 

 Tourn. Inst. 585, 586. Pinus and Abies, Linn. Gen. ed. 1, n. 731, 

 732 ; Juss. Gen. 414 ; Rich. Conif. 145, 147, t. 11-17. Pinus, Picea, 

 Abies, Larix, and Cedrus, Link in Linnsea, xv. 482, 516, 525, 

 533, 537. Pinus, Abies, Cedrus, and Larix, Spach, Hist, des Y^g. 

 Phan. xi. 369, 403, 427, 431. Tsuga, Abies, Picea, Larix, Cedrus, 

 and Pinus, Carr. Conif. 185, 195, 236, 269, 281, 291. Abies, Cedrus, 

 Larix, Picea, Pinus, and Pseudolarix, Gord. Pin. 1, 39, 123, 143, 162, 



