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#< needle " or phylloid shoot of the ordinary character, so that in 

 these cones we have it in evidence that the perul® are modifica- 

 tions of leaves, that the needles or phylloid shoots are axillary to 











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Pig. 26 —Details from prolified cone 

 of Sciadopitys. a, bract and scale 

 from the side and from the back re- 

 spectively ; B , section of A, to show 

 detachment of scale and bract; 

 c, bract ; d, bract and portion of 

 •needle" from proliferous cone, 

 seen from the back. 



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Fi". 27.— Proliferous cone of Sciadopitys. 

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them, that they occupy the same relation to the perula that the 

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