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BOTANY. 
and rendered valueless. This kind of decay seemed to affect the wood in a great number of 
detached points at the same time, and not to he connected with any external injury. 
The fruit of the Libocedrus is very different from that of any of its congeners, and is well 
represented by the plate given in P. Fremont. (1. c.) by Dr. Torrey, except that it is always 
pendulous and not erect, as there represented. 
