312 ORDER 127. CONIFER/E. 



veined, circiunate. Flowers dioecious, naked, in cones, $ anther covering 

 the under surface of the connectile. $ Scales peltate, bearing naked 

 ovules dorsal or marginal. 



1. CYCAS REVOLUTA, from Japan, hardy South, lias a short thick trunk, 

 crowned with numerous pinnate leaves, 4 of long, with innumerable linear 1-veincd 

 leaflets rolled at the edges. Fruit in an oblong spadix. 



2. ZAMIA INTEGRIFOLIA. COONTIE. FLORIDA ARROW-ROOT. Slt'lll 



corm-like, abounding in starch. Leaves :^ 5f long, leaflets 35'. lance-oblong, jointed to 

 the rachis, entire, CO-veined ; fruit in a large oblong cone. S. Fla. 



ORDER CXXVII. CONIFERS. CONIFERS. 



Trees or shrubs mostly evergreen, abounding with a resinous juice. Leaves 

 scattered or fascicled, mostly linear, parallel or fork- veined. Flowers $ $ 

 or (9 , destitute of corolla or calyx, in aments and cones. $ Stamen 1, or 

 several united. ? Ovary, style, and stigma wanting. Ovules 1 oo at the 

 base of the carpellary scale. Fruit a strobile (cone) with the scales woody 

 and distinct, or baccate with the scales fleshy and coherent. Figs. 107, 16'3, 

 194, 216, 256, 293, 299, 352-3, 473-4, 491. See Hoopes' Book of Evergreens. 



ABIETINE.E. Scales of the cone each with a bract beneath it. Seeds 2, winged ...(*) 

 CUPRESSINE^E. Scales bructless. Seeds 19, mostly with 2 wings. . .(**) 



* Leaves evergreen, linear, 2 5 together in each fascicle Pi.vus. i 



* Leaves evergreen, linear, solitary, scattered . ABIKS. 2 



* Leaves in fascicles of many together, a evergreen CEDRUS. 3 



(i deciduous LARIX. 4 



** Cones baccate, consisting of the fleshy coherent scales JUNIPERUS. 5 



** Cones dry, scales imbricated. x Leaves lance-linear CUNNUJGIIAMIA. (i 



x Leaves scale-form, opposite, 4-rowed THUYA. 7 



** Cones dry, scales valvately closed. y I .vs. scale-form, opposite, 4-rowed.. .CUHKESSUS. 8 



y Lvs. linear, alternate, deciduous TAXODIUM. t) 



i/ Lvs. alternate, evergreen, t SEQUOYA. 10 



1. PINUS, L. PINE. Fls. 8 , the $ in clustered aments. Stamen 1, 

 with a 2-celled anther. $ Aments of many open imbricated carpellary 

 scales, each with a bract at the back and 2 inverted ovules at base within. 

 Cone woody, persistent two years, the scales often thickened and awncd 

 at the tip. Seeds nut-like, winged. Cotyledons 3 12. 5 Fascicles of 

 2 5 linear-filiform leaves, siieathcd at base. 



Leaves in 5's. x Scales spineless, hardly thickened at end Nos. 1-3 



x Scales ending with a cap and a spine No 4 



Leaves in 3's. y Cones oblong, with small recurved spines Nos. 5, C 



y Cones ovoid, with weak or strong spines Nog. 7 fl 



Leaves in 2's. z Scales tipped with spines or prickles Nos. 10 12 



z Scales spineless. a Trees native Nos. ]:j, 1 1 



a Trees European Nos. 15, 1(5 



1 P. strobus L. White Pine. A majestic tree, 100 170f, in the forests ; Ivs. needle- 



shaped, 45', not rigid ; cones oblong, 57', pendulous. Woods, Peun., N. and N-W. 

 Timber of great value in architecture. 



2 P. EXCELSA. BhotanP. Lvs. glaucous, 5 7'; cones cylindric, 6 9'; nuts winged. Asia 



