1914] BURLINGAME—ARAUCARIA BRASILIENSIS 491 
The buds all look alike externally before this, and even on dissec- 
tion are so much alike as not to be distinguishable. A branch 
that has borne a cluster of cones one year does not ordinarily 
—The tip of a fruiting branch bearing 6 young cones about 4 months old: 
the ee was made about August 1; 4 of the 6 cones are borne on branches 
arising from the same whorl, the other 2 ioe the whorl below; the whorl just out of 
the bud consists of leafy branches only; 3. 
bear a crop the next season. A cone-bearing branch is usually 
thicker and looks more vigorous than a leafy branch in the spring. 
When the cones have emerged from the terminal bud and are 
