TO THE nrSTOKT OF CERTAiy COXIFEUS. 



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side above the lower 

 epidermis and near to 

 the edge of the leaf. 

 The coues (fig. 24), 

 which are stalked, vary 



considerably iu size and 

 less so in form. The 



bracts in the Italian 

 specimen are shorter 

 than the rounded seal 

 and usually concealed ; 

 ,but here and there the 

 persistent acuminate tip 

 of the bract be]ono:ino: 

 to a given scale projects 

 in the interspace be- 

 tween the upper part of 

 the two scales beneath 

 it ; and the seeds are 

 provided with a hatchet- 

 shaped wing. Mr. Ben- 

 tham was quite correct 

 when, in the * Genera 

 Plantarum/ iii. p. 442, 

 referring to Carriere's 

 genus Keteleeria, he 

 said : — ^^ Keteleeria . . . • 

 t verisimiliter Abietis 

 species, strobili squamis 

 diu persistentibus." 

 Hance (/.<?.) concurs in 

 this opinion ; and as the 

 leaf-insertion is that of 

 the Silver Firs, and the 

 confes erect, not, as 

 once supposed, pendeni , 

 there is no ground for 

 including it among the 

 Spruces {Picea), still 

 less for considering it 

 the representative of 



Fig. 25, 



Cone-bearing branch of Ahles FoHunely reduced 



one half; cultivated specimen. 



