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winter, and expand into maturity in the early spring, before the 

 appearance of the leaves in northern and temperate latitudes and 

 at the same time as the leaves farther south. The staminate 

 aments are pendulous, linear-oblong or club-shaped, and from two 

 to four inches long when fully matured. They are conspicuous 

 appendages to the naked branches in winter and early spring, but 

 they soon drop off after the pollen has been shed. The pistillate 

 aments are erect, short, and relatively inconspicuous until they 

 have matured and shed their seeds, after which they remain attached 

 to the branches, many of them until the following spring, in the 

 form of rigid, ligneous cones. 



Arthur Hollick. 



Explanation of Plate. Fig. 1. — Branch with staminate and pistillate 

 inflorescence. Fig. 2. — Branch with full-grown but unripe fruit, and old persistent 

 catkins of the preceding year. Fig. 3. — Young staminate catkins. Fig. 4. — 

 Scale of staminate catkin, with flowers, X 5. Fig. 5. — Staminate flower, X 8. 

 Fig. 6. — Pistillate catkin, X 5. Fig. 7. — Scale of pistillate catkin, with flowers, 

 X 8. 



