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Identifier: veitchsmanualof00kent (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Kent, Adolphus Henry Veitch, James Herbert, 1868-1907 James Veitch & Sons
Subjects: Conifers Conifers
Publisher: Chelsea : J. Veitch
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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ansverse depressionat the centre.Seeds 5—7 pendulous - . - - -Leaves homo- or dimorphic, deciduous.Staminate flowers paniculate or solitary. Anther cells 4—8. Strobiles globose or obovoidwith the scales imbricated, rugose andobscurely mucronate.Seeds 2 erect ...... Leaves dimorphic, S((uamiforni and cladodiform(i.e., deciduous scale-like leaves and per-sistent leaf-like structures that perform thefunctions of foliation).Staminate flowers umbellate. Anther cells 2. Stro))iles ovoid-cylin(hie, thescales iml)ricated with a transverse ridgebeyond the middle and not thickened atthe apex. Seeds 7—9 erect - - - - . - - 10—Sciadopitys. 8.—Sequoia. 9.—TaxucUum. ATI 1 ROTA X IS. 259 ATHROTAXIS. Don in Trans. Linn. 8oc. XVIII. 172, t. 14 (1839). EndlicluT. Synops. Conif. 193(18-17, Artliwtaxis). Pailatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 433 (1868). Bentiiani and Hooker,Gen. Plant. III. 430 (1881). Eicliler in Kngler and Prantl, Nat. Pfl. Fam. 89 (1887).Masters in Jonrn. Linn. Soe. XXX. 21 (1893).
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Pig. 75. Athrotctxis cupressoides.(From the Onrdeners Chronicle.) Athrotaxis* is a genus of iiiiich-branched evergreen trees of lowor medium stature and of pyramidal or columnar habit, clothed withshort, thick, homo- or dimorphic leaves which are either concrescentwith their axes, adnate at tlie base and free at the apex, orslightly spreading and more or less inciirved. It is further distin-guished by the following characters :— Flowers nioiioecious on diflerent branches ; tlie staiuinate flowerssmall, solitary and teriniiial on branchlets of tlie preceding year, witlicrowded, imbricated stamens subspirally arranged, each formed of aslender stipes expanded into a transverse peltate connective from whiclitlie two anther cells hang. ()vuliferous flowers also terminal, nearly glolxise, composed of ten to * Errore Artlirotaxis auctorum fere omnium. 260 ATHROTAXIS. twenty iiu))ricated scales, liaviiii; a thiikeiied l)r()ail disk from whichare suspeiuknl three—six ovidcs. Strohiles lign

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