72 Field, Forest, and Wayside Flowers 
on this year’s new wood. The buds from which 
they have issued tipped the branches and con- 
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Upp. 8 
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Fic. 11.—Details of the blossoming butternut. 
a, a cluster of pistillate flowers ; 4, one stamen bearing scale detached from 
the’staminate flower- chain; c,a single stamen, (All magnified.) 
tained, besides the pistillate flowers, a few of this 
year’s tender leaves. The staminate flowers in all 
