THE JOURNAL 
OF 
THE LINNEAN SOCIETY. 
Notes on the Genera of Taxacee and Conifere. By Maxwett 
T. Masters, M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., Corresponding Member 
of the Institute of France. 
[Read 15th December, 1892.] 
Tux following observations are the outcome of a comparative 
examination of the morphological characters of all the genera of 
Taxacee and Conifere so far as I have been able to accomplish 
it. In most cases living plants have been examined, and in 
all instances the available museum and herbarium specimens 
have been studied and the literature relating to them referred 
to. It is not necessary to state the sources whence I have 
derived my information, as they are given in my paper on the 
Comparative Morphology of the Order, published in the Journal 
of this Society, Botany, vol. xxvii., and again in a List of Conifers 
and Taxads in cultivation in Great Britain, prepared for the 
Conifer Congress, and published in vol. xiv. of the Journal of 
the Royal Horticultural Society in October 1892. Constant 
reference has also been made to the schemes of arrangement 
proposed by the older writers, and in more recent times by 
Eichler, Van Tieghem, and others. In the main, however, I 
have followed the lines laid down by Bentham, in Bentham and 
Hooker’s ‘Genera Plantarum,’ iii. p. 420 et seg. (1880). In 
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