. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 1062 ATIBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, evergreen; imbricate. — Trees of magnificent dimensions, and evergreen; natives of South America, Poly- nesia, and Australia j only one of which, the Araucaria imbricata, is hardy in the climate of Britain,
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 1062 ATIBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, evergreen; imbricate. — Trees of magnificent dimensions, and evergreen; natives of South America, Poly- nesia, and Australia j only one of which, the Araucaria imbricata, is hardy in the climate of Britain, t 1. A. imbricaVa Pav. The mibvic^te-Ieaved Araucaria, or Chili Pine. Identification. Pav. Diss, in Mem. Acad, Reg. Med. Mat., 1. p. 197. Synonymes. A. Dombdyi Rich. Mem. sur les Conif. p. 86.; Plnus AraucSrIa Mol. Sag. sulla Star. Nat. del Chili, p. 182.; Colymbga quadrifaria Salisb. in Linn. Tram. 8. p. 315.; Domb^ya chi- 16nsis ; Pino de Chili, Span,.; Peghuen, in the Andes ; Sir Joseph Banks's Pine. The Sexes. There is a tree at Kew which bore female catkins in 1836 ; and a male plant at Boyton which blossomed in the same year. Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., t. 56. and 57.; Rich. Mi5ra. sur les Conif., t. 20. and 21.; and our figs. 1978. to 1986. Fig 1979. is a cone or female catkin in a young state, from Lambert; ^. 1984. is a specimen of the female tree at Kew ; fig. 1983. is a portion of the male tree with the full-grown catkin, from Lambert's Monograph ; 2x\Afig. 1980. is the full-grown female cone ; all to our usual. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843; Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843. Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum. London : F. Warne & Co. ; New York : Scribner, Welford & Armstrong
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