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SK:ETCH of the COSflFERS OF JAPAN. 



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*' Crescit in insulis Jezo et Krafto, et colltur in hortis procerum 

 circa urbem Jedo : — floretis initio Junii, 



** A Targe tree with smooth soft timber. Branchlets cylin- 

 drical, thick, ferruginous-yellow, glabrous, very straight, but 

 appear angular from tbe projecting convex pulvini, which are 

 either linear and equally thick througboutj or thicker at the top, 

 and are always prominent, diverging from the branch, and marked 

 transversely by rhomboidal phyllulae (fig. 121). Buds clothed with 

 scales, thick, short, cylindrical, with the apex concavely truncate 

 and rose-shaped ; the scales very numerous, very densely imbri- 



Fig. 121. 



Fig. 122. 



Fig. 123. 



cated in many rows, the exterior ones short, deltoid and acute 

 in shape, keeled, erect, and soldered into a cylinder, the inner 



longer 



oblong, reflexed at the apex, and in this manner 

 forming a sort of small rose at the apex of the bud, coriaceous, 

 glabrous, and ferruginous brown. Leaves persistent for seven 

 years, spirally disposed, alternate, but not distichous, from 8 to 

 12 lines in length, sessile, linear, acerose, acute, and terminating 

 in a spinous mucro, entire, with a mid-rib prominent on both 

 sides, and keeled on both, hence obsoletely subtetragonal, below 

 marked with two white many-rowed striae of stomata {fig, 123), 



