Archive image from page 336 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 ( ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 245 Var. robusta, Kent. Emerald A. A strong-growing form with deep green foliage. Var. virgata, Schwerin. The primary branches without or with very short secondary branchlets. 7. A. Ctmninghamii, Lamb. Hoop-Pine (Moreton Bay Pine). Tree attaining 200 feet in height, with spreading branches in whorls of 4-7, the uppe
Archive image from page 336 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 ( ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 245 Var. robusta, Kent. Emerald A. A strong-growing form with deep green foliage. Var. virgata, Schwerin. The primary branches without or with very short secondary branchlets. 7. A. Ctmninghamii, Lamb. Hoop-Pine (Moreton Bay Pine). Tree attaining 200 feet in height, with spreading branches in whorls of 4-7, the upper ascending, the lower in older plants somewhat depressed: leaves acicular, straight or nearly so, stiff and pungent, '-Yi inch long, laterally strongly compressed, with the dorsal midrib decurrent: staminate flowers 2-3 inches long: cone ovoid-globose, about 3 inches long; scales terminating in a lanceolate recurved mucro. Australia.—The most widely distributed of the Australian araucarias and a valuable timber tree. Introduced to Great Britain in 1851. It is a less formal and symmetrical plant than A. excelsa and not much cultivated. Var. glauca, Endl. With silvery glaucous foliage. 19. AGATHIS, Salisb. DAMIIAR-PINE Evergreen trees with whorled branches; without distinct winter- buds: leaves opposite or alternate, usually more or less 2-ranked, flat and broad, not needle-like, coriace- ous: flowers dioecious; staminate flowers axUlary, cylindric; fertile flowers terminal or axillary: cones usually on short lateral branchlets, globose-ovoid, usually depressed, composed of numerous broadly obo- vate scales without bracts; each scale with a solitary reversed winged seed; cotyledons 2. (Name derived from Greek agathis, ball or glome; referring to the shape of the fertile flowers and the cone.) A. Leaves sessile, oblong to narrow- lanceolate, }4~M: inch broad. . . .1. A. australis AA. Leaves short-petioled, generally oblong, i- \}/2 inches broad. 63. Agathis australis
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