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CONIFERS. (pine FAMILY.) 
lnd t ptnn P ^ M S r ampS and COld 0r mountain woods, New England 
a i M.ch.gan, common northward. — Tree 40°-70° high 
Tot Zi : rk ’ St ° Ut and S,iff S P readin « branchlete ; the leaves J' 
some’ Than ,rT PPreSS l ^ sh ° rter - the tree therefore less hand- 
ibr or’namenT Sprdce ( A ‘ -<=61sa), which is often planted 
for ornament. Cones V-2' Jong, reddish-brown. 
3. LA^IX, Tourn. Larch. 
• kins lateral and scattered, bud-like. Sterile flowers nearly 
n mus, ut the pollen of simple spherical grains. Cones 
ovoxd, erect, the bracts and scales persistent; otherwise as in 
1 a • GaVes deciduous, soft, very many in a fascicle de- 
» • m ear ^ spring from lateral scaly and globular buds, 
i • , P ro uce (the same or the second year) growing shoots on 
lc 1 1 ie ® aies a y e scattered. Fertile catkins crimson or red in 
flower. (The ancient name.) 
TA„Atct. m S" T a ’ K f C T X - (AMER,CAN - BLACK LARCB - 
ovoid of fp W i i K leaves almost thread-form; cones 
north ward*—■ Aslemf T . (P ‘ P 6 " dala - •**•)-Swamps, chiefly 
rable wood and slend*^ T*’ W ' th heavy ’ cl °ee-grained, and very du- 
ally shorfpr 1 Gr ^ orizonta ^ branches, more slender and usu- 
tree and ha TiT** 1 > l<m European Larch, which is a handsomer 
w ule hose or T? T 168 ° f hS lar = Cr cones arranged in the order/,, 
are only I.-The Ren Larch (P. nu- 
P , Lambert) appears to be a Northern variety only. 
Suborder II. CUPRESSINEaE. The Cypress Family. 
4. THUJA, Tourn. Arbor Vita;. 
minal 0 rv”dTa“ US s"am ffereDt 1 , bran<:heS ’ V6ry Sma " **' 
v * fetam ens with a scale-like filament or con- 
scales - G ^ ri k^ ^ ant ^er-cells. Fertile catkins of few imbricated 
s v 5XG y l ^ e ^ ase > eac h bearing 2 erect ovules, dry and 
with v lng fl 1 matUnty * Cotyledons 2. — Small evergreen trees, 
,. e . ry at f' rank ed spray, on which the minute and appressed 
' e persistent leaves are very closely imbricated. {Ovta, 
j 5 the ancient name of some resin-bearing evergreen.) 
ov at P.r f :rv 0 , CCide , n ^ liS ’ (American Arbor Vit^e.) Leaves 
rows on th 9 "T * g,an< * ° n tile back » appressed-imbricated in 4 
less 1 e e S e brafichlets; scales of the nodding cones point- 
’ -seeded; seeds broadly winged. — Swamps and cool rocky 
