. A manual of the Coniferae, containing a general review of the order; a synopsis of the hardy kinds cultivated in Great Britain; their place and use in horticulture, etc., etc. With numerous woodcuts and illustrations. Conifers; Evergreens. AEAUCAEIA IMBEICATA. 193 Beyond the brief outline sketched above, the limits of the geogra- phical range of Araucaria imbricata are but imperfectly known. According to Professor Poeppig, it is found in the northernmost portion of its habitat, only on the higher slopes of the Andes, and. always in proximity to the snow line, forming a belt of forest of from
. A manual of the Coniferae, containing a general review of the order; a synopsis of the hardy kinds cultivated in Great Britain; their place and use in horticulture, etc., etc. With numerous woodcuts and illustrations. Conifers; Evergreens. AEAUCAEIA IMBEICATA. 193 Beyond the brief outline sketched above, the limits of the geogra- phical range of Araucaria imbricata are but imperfectly known. According to Professor Poeppig, it is found in the northernmost portion of its habitat, only on the higher slopes of the Andes, and. always in proximity to the snow line, forming a belt of forest of from 1,500 to 2,000 feet of elevation immediately below it. Further south it descends to a lower elevation, the area over which it is spread gradually widening till it approaches the ocean at its southern limit. Araucaria imbricata was dis- covered in 1780, by Don Fran- cisco Dendariarena, a Spaniard who was at that time officially employed to ascertain if any timber suitable for ship-build- ing was procurable in southern Chili.* It was also found very shortly afterwards by Drs. Euiz and Pavon, two Spanish botanists, who went out to Peru in 1777, to investigate the forests of that country, with the special object of collecting information respect- ing the Cinchona or Peruvian Bark, and who subsequently ex- tended their explorations further south. They were accompanied by a French gentleman, named Dombey, but he returned to Europe after a short stay, and before Euiz and Pavon sailed for Chili. It was to him that Euiz and Pavon sent the first dried specimens of the Arau- caria received in Europe, and by him these were submitted to the eminent botanist Lamark, who named the tree Dombeya chilensis, and thus Dombey's name become associated with the synonymy of the tree. In 1795, Captain Vancouver reached the coast of Chili, when Mr. Archibald Menzies, who accompanied him in the capacity of botanist, procured some cones and seeds, and also some young plants, which he succeeded in bringin
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