Archive image from page 327 of The cultivated evergreens; a handbook. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada cultivatedevergr00bail Year: 1923 ( 238 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS long: cone about inch long with about 15 leathery scales; seeds oblong, with the wing about inch long. High mountains of Formosa and southwestern China.— Introduced to the Arnold Arboretmn in 1918 by E. H. Wilson; young plants are growing in California and Florida. When young it is a very handsome tree of br
Archive image from page 327 of The cultivated evergreens; a handbook. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada cultivatedevergr00bail Year: 1923 ( 238 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS long: cone about inch long with about 15 leathery scales; seeds oblong, with the wing about inch long. High mountains of Formosa and southwestern China.— Introduced to the Arnold Arboretmn in 1918 by E. H. Wilson; young plants are growing in California and Florida. When young it is a very handsome tree of broad- pyramidal outline with ascending branches and long pendidous branchlets; the foliage is very similar to that of Cryptomeria. 15. ATHROTAXIS, D. Don. Evergreen densely branched trees; bark peeling o£F in longitudinal shreds: leaves homomorphic, small, alternate or indistinctly decussate, either short, blunt, scale-like and appressed, or lanceolate and somewhat loosely disposed: flowers monoecious; staminate flowers in imbri- cated spiral aments, the anthers 2-celled; fertile flowers in spirally imbricated aments, 3-6 ovules under each scale, these aments becoming small globular cones with woody scales which are contracted at base and at apex peltately dilated or pointed; seeds 3-6, winged; cotyledons 2. (Name derived from Greek athroos, crowded, and taxis, arrangement; alluding to the crowded cone-scales and leaves.)—Three species in Tasmania. One or the other of these species which were introduced to Great Britain in 1857 by Wm. Archer may be in cultivation in this country either in the open in the Southern States or in California or as a greenhouse plant in the North. (H A. Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate. B. Cone-scales without process on back: leaves .1. A. selaginoides BB. Cone-scales with large acute process on back: leaves obtuse or acute 2. A. laxifolia AA. Leaves rhombic-ovate, obtuse 3. A. cupressoides 1. A. selaginoides, D. Don {A. alpi
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