. A manual of the Coniferae, containing a general review of the order; a synopsis of the hardy kinds cultivated in Great Britain; their place and use in horticulture, etc., etc. With numerous woodcuts and illustrations. Conifers; Evergreens. 224 A MANUAL OF THE CONIPEEiB. only in most of the kinds, giving the branch a flat or Pern- like form; in a few others they are produced on all sides of the primary. The foliage is dimorphous; the leaves of the young seedlings and of the sterile branches are linear, or needle-shaped; on fertile branches they are imbricated scale-like, closely appressed to
. A manual of the Coniferae, containing a general review of the order; a synopsis of the hardy kinds cultivated in Great Britain; their place and use in horticulture, etc., etc. With numerous woodcuts and illustrations. Conifers; Evergreens. 224 A MANUAL OF THE CONIPEEiB. only in most of the kinds, giving the branch a flat or Pern- like form; in a few others they are produced on all sides of the primary. The foliage is dimorphous; the leaves of the young seedlings and of the sterile branches are linear, or needle-shaped; on fertile branches they are imbricated scale-like, closely appressed to the stem, and arranged in opposite pairs. The flowers are monoecious in most of the species; the cones are small spherical bodies, rarely exceeding an inch in diameter, but frequently much less, and consist of hard, lig- neous, peltate scales, occasionally with angular or spiny pro- jections, arranged in opposite pairs (decussate), each scale bearing numerous seeds. A deviation from some of these general characters is seen in the cones of Thuia and Libocedras, which are ovate-ohlong, with the scales not peltate; and in the Junipers, in which the acicular leaves RJl are arranged in threes, and 5 ;™ in many species of which the leaves never or only ,, partially assume the scale- Fig. 53.—Strobile, or cone, * J of Mioce&rus ckcurrms. Na- like form. In the Juni- pers, also, the flowers are generally dioecious, and the scales of the fruit fleshy, and of a deep purple colour, giving it a berry or drupe-like form. With the exception of the Junipers, which are spread over the eastern and western Continents from the Tropic of Cancer to the Arctic Circle, the geographical distribution of the Cupressineee may be stated roughly as being confined to two comparatively narrow zones, nearly equi-distant from the equator. In the eastern Continent the northern zone lies between the 30th and 45th parallels; in America between the 25th and 50th. The southern zone includes portions of South
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