THE CONIFERS. 



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species of evergreens; but these of the $ catkins of the 

 pine are enough like all the others to guide you in search- 

 ing for and studying them. When they 

 have shed their pollen, they wither and dis- 

 appear. 



The $ , or fertile flowers, are also clus- 

 tered, and appear at the same time as the 

 <3 ones, sometimes on the same, and some- 



FIG. 438. 



FIG. 439. 



FIG. 441. 



FIG. 443. 



