binate

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Leaves binate, from 10 to 20 cm. long, stout and rigid; resin-ducts medial, hypoderm multiform, the inner cells gradually larger, remarkably large in the angles of the leaf.

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The spikelets are oblong, acute, binate, one pedicel being shorter than the other, usually appressed to the rachis and not spreading.

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But in my variety the increase of the number of the leaflets may extend to these primary organs, and make them binate or even ternate.

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Its short binate leaves, the persistent long prickles of its cone, and its tough branches, combine to distinguish this Pine from its associates.

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It is recognized by its smooth branches, binate leaves and numerous, often multiserial, clusters of persistent, often closed, cones.

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