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EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 



Plate DCXII. Abies gka^dis. 



1. A branch with staminate flowers, natural size. 



2. A staminate flower, enlarged. 



3. An anther, seen from below, enlarged. 



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4. An anther, side view, enlarged. 



5. A branch with pistillate flowers, natural size. 



6. A scale of a pistillate flower, upper side, with its bract 



and ovules, enlarged. 



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7- A fruiting branch, natural size. 



8. A cone-scale, lower side, with its bract, natural size. 



9. A cone-scale, lower side, with its bract, natural size. 



10. A cone-scale, upper side, with its seeds, natural size. 



11. A seed, natural size. 



12. A leaf of a fertile branch, natural size. 



13. A leaf of a sterile branch, natural size. 



14. A leaf from the leader of a young tree, natural size. 



15. Cross section of a leaf magnified fifteen diameters. 



16. A seedling plant, natural size. 



