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often sixty feet high, beset above witli knots among its 

 scragged branches. The leaves are short-linear, silvery 

 beneath, on delicate petioles, spirally arranged, yet so 



Fig LVni -Abies Canadensis : 1, a branch wiih fertile flowers at « . and steri e 

 at i ; 2, a scale, with Us short bract ; 3, a cluster of 6 flowers ^stamens) ; 4, a scale 

 with 'its 2 perfected, winged seeds, seen from within. 



inclined to a horizontal position as to appear '.'-ranked on 

 the slender spray. The Z anients are vi'rv smulK scarcely 



