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Suborder II. CUPRESSIN'EjE. (Cypress F.) 

 Fertile flowers of only a few scales, these not in the axils 

 of bracts, forming in fruit either a very small loose and dry 

 corie, or a sort of false berry owing to the thickening of the 

 scales. 



* Flowers monoecious. Fruit a small loose cone. 



6. Thiijai. . Leaves some awl-shaped, others' scale-Ulce, closely imljn- 



cated on ihajlat branches. Catkins ovoid, terminal. 

 * * Flowers mostly dioecious. Fruit berry-like, black with a bloom. . 



7. .Iiiul|t'erng. Leaves aivl-shaped or scale-like, sometimes of boili 



sliapes, evergreen, priclvly-pointed, glaucous-white on the upper 

 surface, artd in whorls of 3, or opposite. 



Suborder in. TAXIN'E.^:. (Yew Family.) 

 Fertile flower solitary, consisting of a naked ovule sur- 

 rounded by £1, disk which becomes pulpy and berry-like in 

 fruit, enclosing the nut-like seed. Berry red. 



8. Taxas. Flowers chiefly dioecious. Leaves evergreen, mucronate, 



rigid, scattered.— A low straggling bush, usually in the shade of 

 other evergreens. 



1. PINUS, Tourn. PlNE. 

 1. P. resino'sa, Ait. (Red Pine.) Leaves in twos, slen- 

 der. Bark rather smooth, reddish. — Common northward. 



2.- P. Banksia'na, Lambert. (Gray or Northern Scrub 

 Pine.) Leaves in twos, about 1 incji long. Oones conical, 

 usually curved, smooth and hard, about one and one-half 

 .inches long. — Barren soil, eastward and northward. 



3. P. rig'ida, Mill. (Pitch Pine.) Leaves in threes. 

 Scales of the oones tipped with a short stout recurved prickle. 

 — Atl. Prov. 



4. P. StrO'bUS, L. CWhite Pine.) Leaves in fives, slender. 

 Bark smooth except on old trees, not reddish. — Common. 



2. prCEA, Link. Spkuce. 



1. P. nig^a, Link. {Abies nigra, Poir.) (Black Spruce.) 

 Leaves needle-shaped and 4-sided, pointing in all directions. 

 Cones hanging, persistent, scales with thin edges." — Swamps 

 and cold woods. 



2. P. alba. Link. (Abies alba, Michx.) (Whitk Spruce.) 



