310 TINE FAMirT. 



2. ABIES. Leaves persWterit, linear or short needle-shaped, 'borne directly on the 

 shoots of the season, over which they are thicltly ana uniformly scattered. 

 Sterile catkins in the axils of the leaves of the preceding year. Fertile oat- 

 kins solitary, maturing in the autumn of the same year; their scales thin and 

 even, never prickle-bearing. 



8. LAEIX. Leaves, aU deciduous in autumn, soft, short .needle-shaped, in spring, 

 developed very many in a dense cluster from axillary buds of the previous 

 summer (Lessons, p. 71, fig. 1.39), those on shoots of the season similar but 

 • scattered. Cones as in Abies, the scales persistent. 



4. CEDBUS. Leaves as in Larix, but rigid and persistent. Cones globular, 

 large, of very broad thin scales, which at length fall away from the axis. 



II. CYPRESS FAMILY. These have both kinds of flowers 

 in short often globular catkins of few scales ; the fertile making a 

 iglobular or ovate small cone, which is often fleshy when young, 

 sometimes imitating a berry. The branches appear and the shoots 

 grow on without the intervention of any scaly buds. Leaves often 

 opposite or whorled, sometimes scale-like and adnate to the branch. 



§ 1. Scales of {he gMmhr cone with a pointed bract behind each wedge~ihaped scale, 



party cohering with its back. 

 B. CRYPTOMEBIA. Cone terminating a leafy branch, the recurved tip of the 

 bract and awl-shaped lobes of the top of the scales projecting. 



§ 2. Scales of ihe fruit simple, no bract behind them. 

 « Fruit a sort of cone, dry and hard when mature : flowers monacioas, rarely dieecious. 

 ■*~ Leaves thin and delicate, flat, deciduous. 



6. TAXODIUM. Two kinds of flowers on the same branches ; the sterile catkin 



spike-panicled, of few stamens ; the fertile in small clusters. Cone globular, 

 firmly closed tin mature, of several very thick-topped and angular shield- 

 shaped scales, a pair of erect 3-angled seeds on their stalk. 

 ••- -1- Leaves evergreen, Unear and awl-shaped, alternate, free, destitute of glands. 



7. SEQUOLA. Catkins globular, the scales of the fertile ones bearing several 



ovules. Cone woody ; the shield-shaped scales closed without overlapping, 

 and bearing 3-5 flat wing-margined seeds hanging from the upper part of 

 their stalk-Eke base. 



■1- ■)- ■*- Leaves evergreen, opposite, awl-shaped and scale-shaped {the former on the 

 moj'e vigorom lengthening shoots, the latter closely imbricated and decussate on 

 the succeeding branchlets). commonly with a resinous gland on the back. Seeds 

 and imules erect : cotylediyns only 2 or 3. 



8. CUPRESSUS. Cones spherical; the shield-shaped scales closing by their 



well-fitted margins, not overlapping, separating at maturity, each scale bear- 

 ing two or usually several ovules and winged or wing-margined seeds, it« 

 broad summit with a central boss or short point. 



9. THU.JA. Cones oblong or globular, the scales not shield-shaped but concave 



and fixed by their base, overlapping in pairs, pointed if at all from or near 

 their summit, spreading open at maturity, each bearing a single pair of 

 ovules and seeds, or rarSy more. 



# * Fruit berry-like : flowers commonly dicecious. 



10. JUNIPEBUS. Catkins very small, lateral; the fertile of 3-6 fleshy^ scales 



growing together, and ripening into a sort of globular berry, containmg 1-3 

 bony seeds. Leaves evergreen, opposite or whorled. 



III. YEW FAMILY. Distinguished by having the fertile 

 catkin, if it may be so called, reduced to a single tel'minal flower, 

 consisting of an ovule only, surrounded by some bracts, ripening 

 into a nut-like or drupe-like seed: cotyledons only 2. There is 

 nothing answering to the scales of a pine-cone. Leaf-buds scaly as 

 in the true Pine Family. Flowers mostly dicBcious, axillary. 



11. TAXUS. Leaves linear, appearing more or less 2-ranked, green both sides. 



Both kinds of catkins, if such they may be called, are small axillary buda 



