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in two rows. Its fruit is oblong or globular ; the receptacle ovate or 

 unequal-sided ; generally singly ; at first green changing to yellowish- 

 green as it arrives at maturity, and when thoroughly ripe assuming a 

 bro-wnish-yellow colour; the drupes are from half-an-inch to three- 

 quarters of an inch long, and about two-thu'ds as broad; pleasant to 

 the taste and edible ; and used by the native tribes as an article of 

 food. It is tolerably hardy ; but unless in the best soils, warmest 

 locahties, or best sheltered situations it Avill not stand the severity of a 

 very hard winter in Britain, 



S.D. lY. SymMORPHAPITE.^ : The AUied Pine Tribe. 



From Greek avfifiopfoQ, symmoT2'>hos " allied," (or like in juice and 

 wood) and ttivvq, pitys ; " a pine tree." This re-arranged S.D. of my 

 Eacciferse or Fruit-bearing Pines, formed of old and well known 

 materials, I have been forced, as it were, to adopt in this way, so as to 

 enable me to include in my arrangement of Pinacese some genera which 

 by most authors are admitted into, and treated as, Coniferee. Although 

 not one of them is such, yet, I consider myself warranted in including 

 them in this reunion of the Firs and Pines ; inasmuch as they are, 

 though, to a certain extent, generically and specifically distinct from, yet, to 

 a certain extent, so closely related or allied to, some of the other species 

 of my Baccifers, in their juices, structure, and general deportment, as to 

 entitle them to be admitted ; not upon sufferance, however, but, under 

 the auspices of their generic name ; as legitimate claimants for presen- 

 tation at this court of Pinacese. 



§ 1. Ch^ETOCLADUS : The Bristle-Branched Allied Pine. 



From Greek xaira, cJiaeta, "a bristle;" and Kka^oQ, klados, "a 

 branch ; " the resemblance of their branches ; forming as it were a 

 bristly-branched bush. 



Flowers, male and female, generally together, yet, exceptionally 

 separate ; males generally sitting close to the stem joints ; females 

 generally produced close to the joints, and on solitary footstalks ; 

 comparatively, — some are long, and some short. 



Leaves, very small, few and distant ; generally two at the joints of the 

 very numerous, slender, many-jointed, articulate or divaricate branches; 

 which are generally furnished with sheath-like appendages ; some of 

 the bristly or hair-like twigs are erect, some drooping. 



Fruit, generally small ; some produce succulent or fleshy, some dry 

 or leathery carpels, or nut-like formations ; some have one, others two 

 seeds in a fruit. m 



