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BULLETIN 604, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The cones are pendulous and from three-fourths inch to 1J inches 
long by from one-fourth to five-sixteenths inch in diameter at the 
thickest part. They are subglobose in form, tapering to a rather 
a b 
Fig. 3. — Libocedrus decurrens. a, male flowers ; b, fruiting branch ; c, seed. 
elongated blunt point, and consist morphologically of three pairs of 
scales (practically only two, the two inner pairs being united), one 
pair of which bear fertile seed. 
