EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 



Plate DCXIV. Abies amabilis. 



1. A branch with staminate flowers, natural size. 



2. A staminate flower, enlarged. 



3. An anther, seen from below, enlarged. 



4. An anther, side view, enlarged. 



5. A branch with pistillate flowers, natural size. 



6. A bract of a pistillate flower, enlarged. 



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



ovules, enlarged. 



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8. A fruiting branch, natural size. 



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



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



11. Vertical section of a seed, enlarged. 



12. An embryo, enlarged. 



13. The tip of a leading shoot, natural size. 



14. Cross section of a leaf magnified fifteen diameters. 



15. Winter-buds, natural size. 



16. A seedling plant, natural size. 



