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young branches of the poisonous savine, Funiperus Sabina, and the rosin 
from the North American Calhtris guadrivalvis. ‘The anthers of the 
Taxinee (Fig. 457) are two-lobed. The erect ovules (see Fig. 328, 
p: 154), which are either solitary or arranged in groups on a special 
branch, and either terminal or lateral, develope into nut-like seeds 
surrounded by a more or less thickened and fleshy envelope or aril. 
The embryo has two cotyledons which in some genera rise above the 
ground, while in others they do not. The poisonous leaves of the yew, 
Laxus baccata, are officinal. The Adzetenee (Figs. 454, p. 335; 458. 
459) approach the Taxinezein their two-lobed anthers, and the Cupressinez 
, = 4 Ms ‘ ‘ } , 
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AS AE 
SS y. aN yi 
= iS AWN vl 
Fic. 458.—Larch (Pizzus Larix); I. a seed-scale 4 from 
a young cone, seen from the inner side, with the bract 
a, and the two inverted naked ovules d; II. ripe 
cone ; III. z pas a es . mye cone, seen from the 
outer side, 6 the bract which has not grown along with Fic. — 
the scale, and is therefore smaller ; IV. the eae with ees ae 
its wing @; V. longitudinal section through the seed, 
the small embryo & lying in the endosperm e. 
in their fruit, which is a cone ; but differ from both these suborders in 
their anatropous ovules with the micropyle directed downwards, and- 
in the number of their cotyledons, which varies from five to twelve 
[or rather from two to fifteen]. The cone is also constructed differently 
from that of the Cupressinez, being composed of imbricate bracts and 
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