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over and under each other like varicose or in our greenhouses from an early period, and 

 swollen veins. The seed (fig. 3) is from formerly much more frequently than now ; 

 Gsertner's " Carpologia ; " the branch of it (fig. 

 5) is a copy of that given by Burchell in his 



Fig. 2. — L. argenteum — Leaf. 



Fig. 3. — Leucadendron argenteum —Seed. 



" in this country it forms a real ornament of 

 the greenhouse, where its beautiful silver 



Fig. 4. — Leucadendron argenteum — Male Flower. 



" Travels in South Africa ; " and fig. 4 is leaves furnish a strong but agreeable contrast 

 from Lindley's figures in the "Botanical with the more common green of other 

 Register," who remarks that it was cultivated plants." 



