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WEYMOUTH PINE 



[For (ft) 

 seep. 72.] 



scales thin and not thickened conspicuously 

 into an apophysis. 



(a) Apophysis slight and oblique, and umbo a 

 mere point to the scale ; leaves 5 in a tuft. 



Fig. 74. Pinus Strobus, L. 1, open ripe cone ; 2, cone-scale viewed 

 from below ; 3, cone-scale viewed from above ; 4, winged seed seen from 

 above ; 5, seed forcibly deprived of its wing and seen from below ; 6, 

 shoot with growing spring-shoots and two cones of the preceding year. 

 (All reduced, after von Tubeuf.) 



