filiform, margin somewhat hispid when the finger is pulled backward, generally pendulous, and from
nine to eighteen inches or more in length.
Stipules or Sheaths round the base of the leaves numerous and chaffy.
MALE FLOWERS.
Antheral racemes numerous at the extremities of the branchlets: from their centre issues the shoot
of the same season.
Bracts solitary, one to each raceme.
Calix of the raceme, scales numerous, round, its base chaffy, brown.
Stamens very numerous. Filaments scarce any. Anthers clavate, opening on each side and crowned
with a large roundish scale inflected over the next above.”
EXPLANATION OF TAB. 21.
a, Male Catkin.
B ,B . Antherse.
c. Young Cone.
d. d. Ripe Cone.
e. Scale of the Cone.
f. Seed.
g. Sheath of the Leaves.
H,H. Points of the Leaves.
