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are longer than usual. M. Andr6 describes (in the c Illustration 

 Horticole ' for 1870, p. 106) a variety of the common Silver Fir, 

 j^bies pectinata, in which, in conjunction with a regularly pyra- 

 midal outline of the whole tree, the leaves were not pseudo- 

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Fig. k—Cepkalotaxw pedunculate, var. fastigiata, showing the terminal shoot with 

 scattered pluriseriate leaves, and a lateral shoot with pseudo-distichous leaves. 



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