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rhc woody, scaly cone of the common alder is a familiar sight, hut few |)i'oi)k- know liial the 

 hard, woody hracts are really modified leaves. In the sjjeeimen illustrated, these bracts 

 reveal their true i<lentity, sinee some of them have become leaf-like, i)r()bably a reversion 

 to their ancestral condition. (Fig. 9.) 



