Crossword-Solution: CONIFER 7 letters, 56 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

After this the twenty men who formed his whole available fighting force were summoned by our host into the square formed by the house, and there, standing by the bole of the great conifer, he earnestly addressed them and our four Askari.

The long street of Hachiishi, with its steep-roofed, deep-eaved houses, its warm colouring, and its steep roadway with steps at intervals, has a sort of Swiss picturesqueness as you enter it, as you must, on foot, while your _kurumas_ are hauled and lifted up the steps; nor is the resemblance given by steep roofs, pines, and mountains patched with coniferæ, altogether lost as you ascend the steep street, and see wood carvings and quaint baskets of wood and grass offered everywhere for sale.

The sun shone gloriously and brightened the hill-girdled valley in which Odaté stands into positive beauty, with the narrow river flinging its bright waters over green and red shingle, lighting it up in glints among the conical hills, some richly wooded with _coniferæ_, and others merely covered with scrub, which were tumbled about in picturesque confusion.

See "Life and Letters," I., pages 356 et seq.)--I suppose a Cycad-Conifer with the habits of the mangrove.

Among the Coniferæ of Upper Miocene age is found a deciduous cypress nearly allied to the _Taxodium distichum_ of North America, and a _Glyptostrobus_ (Fig.