The journal of the Horticultural Society of London . Pernettya ciliaris. LATELY INTRODUCED INTO Cone of Araucaria Cookii. 270 NOTICES OF CERTAIN ORNAMENTAL PLANTS been brought to England alive by Captain Jones, of the merchantman ; and among them the plant at the headof this article, which grows abundantly on the islands of Aniteura,New Hebrides, and New Caledonia. In a memorandum thataccompanied the plant received by the Society, Mr. Moore re-marl<s that tlie tree is apparently distinct from A. excelsa. Itdiffers from that species in liaving a more compact habit whenold
The journal of the Horticultural Society of London . Pernettya ciliaris. LATELY INTRODUCED INTO Cone of Araucaria Cookii. 270 NOTICES OF CERTAIN ORNAMENTAL PLANTS been brought to England alive by Captain Jones, of the merchantman ; and among them the plant at the headof this article, which grows abundantly on the islands of Aniteura,New Hebrides, and New Caledonia. In a memorandum thataccompanied the plant received by the Society, Mr. Moore re-marl<s that tlie tree is apparently distinct from A. excelsa. Itdiffers from that species in liaving a more compact habit whenold, and in being less rigid and more graceful when young, inthe scales of the cone having a longer and more reflexed mucro,and in tlieir gibbous, not wedge-shaped form, as in A. excelsa. Inthe island of Aniteura this plant has become scarce, the Englishtraders having cut it down for ships spars. I only saw oneplant, and tliis was tabooed, or rendered sacred, by the natives;but in New Caledonia, on the south-east coast, whole forests com-posed of this alone were observed. In such situations the topsare
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