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CHAPTER XII. 



THE CONE-BEARI>iG TREES : ILLUSTRATED BY THE SCOTCH PINE ; 

 THE SPRUCE FIR ; THE SILVER FIR ; THE LARCH ; THE 

 CEDAR ; THE ARAUCARIA ; THE ARBOR VIT^ J THE CYPRESS ; 

 THE DECIDUOUS CYPRESS ; THE JUMPER ; THE YEW ; AND 

 THE CYCADE^. 



The greater part of the trees included in this 

 chapter are comprised by Richard, De Candolle, 

 and other foreign botanists, in the order Coni- 

 ferse ; which they have divided into three 

 sections : viz., the Abietinese, or Pine and Fir 

 tribe ; the Cupressinese, or Cypress tribe ; and 

 the Taxineae, or Yew tribe. The last tribe, 

 however. Dr. Lindley has formed into a separate 

 order, which will probably be adopted. Most 

 of the genera have, what the Germans so graphi- 

 cally call needle leaves ; that is, their leaves 

 are long and narrow, and terminate in a sharp 

 point. The flowers also are quite different from 

 what is generally understood by that name ; 

 being in fact nothing but scales : those of the 

 male flowers containing the pollen in the body 

 of the scale, and those of the female producing 

 the ovules, or incipient seeds at the base. The 

 fruit of the Abietine^ is a cone, the scales of 



