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SKETCH OF THE CONIFEES OP JAPAN. 



flortty and fig. 27 is a copy of their figure of P. Koralensis ; both 

 of these appear to us to be cones of the former, fig. 27 being taken 



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from a dried cotie \i\\h the seeds taken or dropped from it. If 

 this had been steeped in ^'ater for a night to make it close up 

 and resume its natural form, it would have become like the 

 cone fig. 13 which, ^Yhen received from Mr. Veitch, had the 

 same opened-up depauperated look, and only assumed the 

 shape figured after being steeped. That it cannot be a cone of 

 P, Koraiensis is plain, for two reasons — one from SieboUl 

 desiring his figures to be cancelled as inaccurate, and the 



