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of the Flowers. — The male flowers are either distinctly 

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Fig. 15.— Male flowers of Picea orientalis, terminal, brilliant carmine ; 



anthers crested. 







Schrift. p. 45 ; Dickson in Trans. Bot. Edinb. vi. (I860), p. 418 ; Eichler in Flor. 

 Brasil. (Conifene), and in ' Bluthendiagramme,* i. p. 59, and in Engler, Pflanzen- 

 Familien Coniferae ; Strasburger, Coniferrc ; Engelmann, Revision of Pinus, p. 7 ; 

 Bentham in Bentham and Hooker, Gen. Plant, iii. p. 420 ; Goebel, OuUines 

 of Classif. and Special Morphol. (1887), p. 323. 



The opposite opinion, that the flowers are numerous, naked, monandrous, 

 and arranged in catkins, was held by Zuccarini', Morphology of the Coniferas, 

 «ay Society, 1846, p. 48 ; Parlatore in DC. Prodr. xvi. p. 361 ; Lindley, Vege- 

 table Kingdom, p. 227; Baillon, Dictioimaire de Eotauique, ii. p. 181; 

 < A. L. de Juseieu, Gen. Plant, ed. Dster. p. 493. ' • - 













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