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SKETCH OF THE CONIFEES OP JAPAN. 



conciled. He says — '* In -4. Smithiana (Mortnda) the young 

 cones are at first upright, and the position assigned by Dr. 

 Wallich — (the cones in his figure were placed upright) — may 

 have originated in his having found them only in this stage ; but 

 from their own weight and the slenderness of the branchlets, 

 they soon become pendulous. The same change of position takes 

 place in the cones of other firs. Sir William Jardine, who possesses 

 one of the largest and oldest trees of Abies Doiiglassii in Britain, 

 informs us that, prior to impregnation, the cone of A, Dottglasii 

 grows erect, but after it is impregnated becomes pendulous. In 

 the absence of actual observation, we content ourselves with men- 

 tioning these circumstances, and leaving the question open. 



§§ 9. 



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Hemlock Spruces (Tsuga) 



SUGA TsUJA. 



Fig. 1«.— Tsuga Tsnja. 



Fig, 142, — Do. copied from Siebold 



