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DB. M. T. MASTEES OK THE MOEPHOLOGT, 



upon record *. One of the most remarkable is that of Cupressu* 

 Lawsoniana, sent me by Mr. Greorge Syme, a gentleman whose 

 knowledge of living Conifers and their structure is of an extensive 

 character. This specimen was alluded to in my paper on the 



Morphology 



In it the lower scales of 



the male flower, which were serially continuous with the leaves, 

 bore anthers ; while the upper scales (bracts) of the same flower, 

 also serially continuous with the leaves, bore ovules. One scale 

 (see fig. 19) even bore an anther on the outer and an ovule on 

 the inner or upper surface of its basal portiont. It will be remem- 







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Fig. 19.— Scale of Cupressus Lawsoniana, bearing an anther on the outer and 



an ovule on the inner surface. Magn. 5 diam. 



bered that the fruit-scale, such as is met with in the Abietinese, 

 more or less conspicuously, as distinct from the bract, is not appa- 

 rent externally in the Cupressinese, though the internal struc- 

 ture indicates, in all the genera yet examined, the presence of a 





bract 



fruit-scale, \ 

 ;he androgy 













Schrift 



Wiegmann's Archiv (1838) 



229 



A. Braun, Das Individuum (1853), p. 65. 



Dickson in Bot. Soc. Edinb., July 1860. 



Caspary, De Abietin. flor. fern. Struct. Morph. (1861). 



Cramer, Bildungsabweich. (1864), p. 4, t. v. ff. 13-17. 



Parlatore in Ann. Sc. Nat. (1865), s6r. 4, t. xvi. p. 215, t. 13 a. 





Oersted „ .__,. 



Sperk, " Androgynous Cone of Larix e 

 St. P&ersb. t. xiii. (1869), p. 53, t. 1. 

 Masters in Gard. Chron. June 30 (1883) 

 t Masters in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. vol 



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