. Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc . rS. Fruiting branchlet of Athrntaxis selaginoides.(From the Gardeners Chronicle.) Athrotaxis A mediuiii-sizcd tier attaiiiiiii^- a hinglit of 40 —45 feet, the trunk coycued witli reddish brown bark(in Great Britain) peeling off in longitudinal branches close-set, spreading, with tetrastichousramification often much inte
. Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc . rS. Fruiting branchlet of Athrntaxis selaginoides.(From the Gardeners Chronicle.) Athrotaxis A mediuiii-sizcd tier attaiiiiiii^- a hinglit of 40 —45 feet, the trunk coycued witli reddish brown bark(in Great Britain) peeling off in longitudinal branches close-set, spreading, with tetrastichousramification often much interrupted. Branchletsstoutish, similarly ramified. Leaves persistent foui*— five years, sub-si)irally arranged, lax, incurved,subulate or sixbulate-lanceolate, mucronate with twogkmcous stomatifcious bands on tlio ventral side,convex-carinate and liright green on the side,025—0*5 inch long. Strobiles glolmse, about an inchin diameter, composed of numerous spirally crowded,broadly ovate scales, each with an acuminate point,and bearin three—six seeijs. Athrotaxis selaginoidus, Don in Trans. Sue. .Will. 172, t. 14. Hooker til in Lond. Joiuii. Bot. IV. MS;Conif. 191. Ciuiierc;, Traite Gordon, Piiu-t. ed. II. ;. .545, witn tig. ; and Journ. R. A. Gunniana, Gordon, IMnct. vd A. imbr
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