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(ii) Seedling and cotyledons very slender. 

 Pinus Strobus. Weymouth Pine (Fig. 147). 

 With P. Strobus comes P. excelsa. 



Fig. 146. Pinus Cembra, 

 Arolla Pine, |- (E.D.). 



Fig. 147. Pinus Strobus, 

 Weymouth Pine, f (E.D.). 



II. EMBEYO AND SEEDLING WITH 2 COTYLEDONS 

 ONLY. 



(Abnormal specimens of Acer, Berberis, &c. may 

 have 3.) 



A. GERMINATION EPIGEAL. [For(B) 



see p. 293.] 



(1) Cotyledons elongated and very narrow, [For (2) 

 linear, &c. Gymnosperms. see p. 276.] 



(a) Primary leaves spirally inserted. 

 Taxus baccata. Yew (Figs. 148, 149). 



(b) Primary leaves opposite or in whorls of 4. 

 (i) Cotyledons 15 16 mm. long. 



(a) Plumule developing into a ^-angular shoot 



with scaly leaves. 



Cupressus sempervirens. Koman Cypress (Fig. 150). 

 (/8) Plumule developing into a shoot bearing 

 subulate leaves in whorls. 



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