SKETCH OP THE CONIFEKS OF JAPAN. 



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branaceous, brittle, half as short as the scale, dirty brown or 

 purplish-brown. Seeds obovate, subtrigonal, iusequitateral, rather 

 compressed, not covered by the -sving at the back ; wing mem- 

 branaceous, equal in length to the scale, cultriforra, obtuse, united 

 on the under side to the seed, and embracing the micropyle at the 

 base, about 4 lines in length. 



Var. minor. Leaves longer, from 10 to 18 lines in length 

 (figs. 161, 162, and 163), Pulvini not equally thick throughout, 

 reddish brown (figs. 164, 165). Cones smaller (fig. 155), the 



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Fig. 168. 



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