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  • Lemba, a tall solitary sugarloaf, bearing 75° (M.), with its outlying conelets concealing like a mass of smoke the world that lay beyond.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • Fig. 263, Multinodal branchlet bearing lateral and subterminal conelets and a ripe cone.

    The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892

  • All conelets are pedunculate, but in some species the peduncle, even when long (patula), may become overgrown and concealed by the basal scales of the ripe cone.

    The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892

  • Conelets single or verticillate, their scales mucronate; conelets of the second year only slightly enlarged.

    The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892

  • The bright April sun shed clear gleams athwart the russet boles of the trees, candied by their white gum, the shadows were sharply defined, and darkened by the dense silvered green canopy, relieved by fresh light young shoots, culminating in white powdery clusters, or little soft crimson conelets, all redolent of fresh resinous fragrance.

    Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • Kongo de Lemba, a tall solitary sugarloaf, bearing 75° (M.), with its outlying conelets concealing like a mass of smoke the world that lay beyond.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • If while hiking through Portland's new woods at Clatsop Butte Park you pause among the cedars with their brightly budding conelets, thank the recession for this moment of Zen.

    Today in Oregon: The Oregonian 2009

  • If while hiking through Portland's new woods at Clatsop Butte Park you pause among the cedars with their brightly budding conelets, thank the recession for this moment of Zen.

    Today in Oregon: The Oregonian 2009

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