EXOGEN-ffi MONOCHLAMYDE^;. 



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in the system ; the succulent fruit seems harmless ; but the 

 seeds are said to be dangerous. 



TYPICAL GENERA. Taxus, Dacrydium. 



Taxus baccata loaded with male flowers. 1. A male flower. 2. An anther. 

 3. A female flower. 4. A vertical section of an ovule. 5. Of a ripe fruit. 6. Of a 

 ripe seed, showing the embryo. N.B. 4. and 6. are the same part in youth and age. 

 5. Is the ripe ovule, with an accessory cup. 



155. Pinacete, or Conifers. Trees or shrubs, with a 

 branched trunk abounding in resin. Ligneous tissue marked 

 with circular disks. Leaves entire. Flowers moncecious or 

 dioecious. Males monandrous or monadelphous, collected in 

 a deciduous catkin. Females in cones. Ovary a flat scale. 

 Ovules naked. Fruit a cone. Seed with a hard integument. 

 Embryo in oily albumen, with 2 or many opposite coty- 

 ledons. 



USES. The timber is of great value ; Deal, Fir, Pine, 

 Cedar, Larch wood are produced by various species. Tur- 

 pentine, resin, pitch, and similar substances are obtained from 

 others ; the resin Sandarach exudes from Thuja articulata. 

 Juniper-berries are the galbuli of Juniperus communis, and 

 are diuretic. Savin, a dangerous emmenagogue, is the Juni- 

 perus Sabina. Larch bark is equal to that of Oak for tan- 

 ning power. 



TYPICAL GENERA. Thuja, Abies, Cupressus. 



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