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SKETCH OF THE CONIFERS OF JAPAN. 



rib prominent. Cones (fig, 172) pendent, about 3 inches long, 

 and 2i inches ia diameter, with scales diverging like those of an^ 

 artichoke head. Scales (figs. 180 and 181) ligneous, about 1 to 1^ 

 inch in length, and about -J inch at the base, where it is heart- 

 shaped," flat tish, though somewhat hollowed on the inner side with 

 an incurved unguiculated shoulder on each side, tapering gradually" 

 to a narrow point at the apex, entire on the margin, verj brittle 

 v.'hen young, excessively deciduous when ripe, falling asunder 

 from the least pressure, being merely held together by a single 



Fig. 175. 



woody fibre which passes out of the base of each scale into tfie 

 axis of the cone. Bract small acute, keeled on the back, and 

 slightly serrulated on the margins. Seeds and wings (fig, 183) 

 glossy bright brown, and exactly the size and shape of the scales, 

 occupying the whole of their inner surface ; the wings are oval 

 lanceolate on the outer side, quite straight on the inner side ; 

 the seeds themselves (fig. 183) enclosed by the wing on the lack, 

 and with the test partially uncovered, full of turpentine, of which 



