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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
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wo-lobed anthers, each with a triangular connective. Ovuli-ferous flowers ovoid or globose, 025 inch long, bright red; scalesspirally imbricated, each bearing an inverted ovule and ultimatelybecoming succulent. Microcachrys tetragona, Hooker lil iu Lond. Joiirn. Bot. loc. cit. supra. FlTasman. I. 358, with tig.; and Bot. Mag. t. 5576. Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II.688. Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 184. Masters in Journ. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 219. Dacrydium tetragouum, Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 496. Microcachrys tetragona occurs only on the highest sumndts ofthe Western Eange and Mount Lapeyrouse in Tasmania. It wasintroduced to the Eoyal Gardens at Kew about the year 1857 byMr. William Archer on whose property it grew. Although of greatinterest in a Ijotanical sense, its only value as a garden plant is forconservatory decoration for which the elegant habit it can be madeto assume under pot culture, its neat foliage and Inight red fruitsrender it highly suitaljle. * Flora of Tasmania, 349.
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