PLATE XLV. RED BIRCH. 



1. Flowering branch with (s) staminate flowers, (p) pistillate flowers, x |. 



2. Branch with mature leaves and two fruiting strobiles, x i. 

 5. A winged seed, enlarged. 



4. A strobile scale, enlarged. 



5. A winter branch with three partly developed terminal staminate aments, x i. 



6. Section of a winter branch, enlarged. 



