PLATE XII. WHITE PINE. 



1. Branch with needles and terminal cluster of buds, x J. 



2. A cluster of tive needles, x J. 



3. Tip of needle with sharply serrate margin, enlarged. 



4. Branch with staminate flowers, x J. 



5. Branch with (a) pistillate dowers on new growth (b) one-year old 



growth, x i. 



6. Branch with an open and a closed cone, x J. 



7. Lower side of a cone scale; x J. 



8. Upper side of a "cone scale with two winged seeds, x |. 



9. A winged seed, x 1. 



10. A seed, natural size. 



11. Section of seed with embryo, natural size. 



12. A seedling, x J. 





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cone on last season's 



