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DR. MAXWELL T. MASTEKS S COXTRIBUTIOXS 



In this country the 

 tree has not thriven ; 

 but in the Nursery of 

 Signer Eovelli, at Pal- 

 lanza, is a magnificent 

 specimen of oblong or 

 pyramidal form, with 

 rather dense verticils 

 of horizontally spread- 

 ing branches and with 

 thick spongy cracked 

 bark like that of the 

 Cork - Oak (woodcut, 



The smaller 

 are grc y 



Fig. 24 



fig. 



23). 



branches 



marked with the circular 

 ]eaf-s?cars of a Silver 

 Fir. The young shoots 

 are glabrous, 

 red. The buds are 

 ovoid oblong, with ob- 

 long, rather acute 



orange- 



the edges. 



brownish scales, mem- 

 branous at 



The lowermost scales 

 are acuminate, and tran- 

 sitional in form betweeji 

 the leaves and the bud- 

 scales. The leaves are 

 in many ranks, spread- 

 ing more or less on all 

 sides. On section, they 



A^ies FortuneL—ConQ erect. Cultivated 



specimen. 





show a layer of hypo- 

 derm beneath the epi- 

 dermis, palissade cells, 

 transfusion-tissue, and 

 a central fibro-rascular 

 bundle surroujuled by 

 a well-marked sheath. 



The resin-canals are two ^^^^^ FartimeL—A, seed ; b, st-ed-scale and ?ecd ; 



in number, one on each '' '^' °\^^ ' ^. ^^^^ oT seed 



•^'^ l"-iict ; K, bract and seed -scale. 



