STEMS PEAIUXn FOr.IAOE-LEAVES. 



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times long and sometimes short axes develop from the same shoot. Also in many 

 conifiM-s, e.g. cedars and larches, the branches procoedinjr from a shoot are for the 

 most part short with neodle-like leaves arrani^od in fascicles, and only a few of 



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Fig. 154.— Kiiccrt gloriosa (from a pliutitgr.iiili). 



them hecome lon<T axes. In Pines, on the other hand, all the leaf-hearing twio-s 

 are short axes, and here we have also the remarkable circumstance that in several 

 species, e.rj. the Scotch Pine (Pinus sylvestris) a lateral twig beai-s only two such 

 needle-leaves. Tree-ferns, Cycads, Pandaneai, Grass-trees (Xanthorrhaea), many 



