FIB TRIBE. 



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mon stalk ; fertile flowers in cones, destitute of styles and 

 stigmas ; fruit a cone, composed of hardened scales or 

 bracts, bearing, at the base of each, naked seeds, which 

 are often winged. For a full description of this impor- 

 tant Tribe, see " Forest Trees of Britain," vol. ii. 



PINUS sYLVfiSTRis (Scotch Fir). 



1. PINUS (Fir). Barren flowers in clustered scaly 

 catkins, the upper scales bearing sessile anthers ; fertile 

 flowers in an egg-shaped catkin, which finally becomes a 

 woody cone ; seeds winged. (Name, the Latin name of 

 the tree.) 



