PINE FAMILY, 333 
is often made by the country people to apply to ents and wounds, and is 
benhy valued py t ee who like to see how such things will heal in ue 
applications. The var candi’cans called Balm of Gilead, i 
Segue tly Mativated, as its fragrance i in spring is exceedingly agreeable 
‘SUB-CLASS IL 
GYMNOSPER’MOUS EXOG’ENOUS PLANTS. 
Pistin represented by an open scale or sate or’sometimes ae want- 
ing ; the ovules and seeds consequently naked (i. e. withou a proper 
pericarp) ; style and stigma none, fartliontion faking place a a 
woe of the pollen to the ovules. Cotyledons often more then two. 
OrpER camels CONIF’ER. (Pine Famtzy.) 
baie = shrubs with resinous juice, needle-shaped or awl-shaped leaves and monccious or 
dicecious flowers in aments, without calyz and corolla. Ovules straight. Embryo in the axis 
of foahy’ and oily albumen. 
orga Pinta! scan ting Order of monet page: tanical character, comprising so 
of the most magnificent t skeen wh, and val for their timber as well as for their 
products, which inchatie the id tee ponins, pitch, tar, &c. The woody fibre of the 
Plants of ‘this or order, under a magnifying power, exhibits peculiar cir cirenilaxsaie ks or 
Paw SvB-FAMILY. 
Fertile flowers in aments, consisting of numerous persistent carpellary scales, each scale 
renee bya bract ; ; forming in fruit a strobile oe cone. Ovules 2 at Be age of each 
scale, their winged. Buds 
Leaves 2-5 in a cluster, from the axil of a thin tials needle-shaped, 
1. Pints. 
leaves all scattered on the branches, evergr 2 
mite many in a cluster on side-spurs, ead genial along the shoots 
of the season, mostly falling in autumn. 3. Larix. 
Cypress SuB-FaMILy. 
Fertile aments, consisting of a few by Auman scales, without bracts, 
with one or several erect ovules at their base. Fruit a roundish 
strobile or intemal Buds naked. 
* Flowers moneecious. Strobile dry, opening at maturity. 
Fruit-of few lew oblong. nearly reer loose arn Ovules 2. Leaves ever- 
green, scale-like, closely imbricated on the flattened branches. 4, THusa. 
Fruit woody and round j Beales tes sbield-shay Seeds 2 or more on the 
Leaves evergreen, SC scale-like or awl-shaped. 5. CUPRESSUS. 
we a woody ae = eee shaped and thickened. Seeds 2 ; 
ves falling in autumn, linear, 2-— 
** Flowers mostly dicecious. Fruit berry-like, not opening at matu- ‘ 
it 3-6 coalescent 1-3-ovuled scales, becoming fleshy. 7. Jusenvs. 
Ew SUB-FAMILY. , 
