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But, when a transcendant genius is checked in its early age -- when its spring-shoots had only began to open -- when it had just engaged in a new feature devoted to man, and man to it, we cannot rest
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827 Various
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The ray-pits are small and the spring-shoots are, with two exceptions, multinodal.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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The second group, the Australes, contains species with small ray-pits, cones dehiscent at maturity and spring-shoots gradually changing, among the species, from a uninodal to a multinodal form.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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The bracts of spring-shoots are the scarious bud-scales of the previous winter; but the bracts of summer-shoots have the form and green color of the primary leaf.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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The first group, the Lariciones, contains species with large ray-pits, cones dehiscent at maturity, and uninodal spring-shoots.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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