Plate 7, Cedar of Lebanon (male and female flowers)

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Plate 7, Cedar of Lebanon (Cedrus libani). Male and female flowers. Fig. 1. The Male Flower. Fig. 2. The Female Flowers, which becomes cones when ripe. Fig. 3. Funaria hygrometrica. Fig. 4. Magnified Capsule. Fig. 5. Calyptra, or Outer Covering of the Capsule. Fig. 6. The little Moss, seldom found in Great Britain, is supposed by Hasselquist to be the Hyssop of Solomon (or the other extent of his Botanical Wisdom or Knowledge) because he found it on the walls of Jerusalem. Fig. 7. Splachnum ampullaceum. Fig. 8. The Capsule magnified, showing teeth, commonly called by Botanists the Peristomium.