XIV. The AA of several sey in the i eem Order E 
Conifere: with (x n their Stigmata, and SeS By 
Richard E Salisbu cms JF Bas. and d 
Read April 2, 1805. 79 
Tue science of Botany does not. ‘eonaiét so much in knowing a 
parcel of names and. technical terms, as a great variety of im- 
mutable facts respecting Vegetables, all of which have more or 
less connection with each other, and which the philosophical 
student stores up to use, when he meets with what is new and 
strange: the detail of the following discovery therefore, if not 
entertaining, is at least so far important, that some curious ana- 
logies and differences occur in it. of ks Se ae es 
T'wo years ago, when the author of that superb work on Pinus 
the figures of which may be regarded as a national honot 
` showed me his manuscript, and asked my opinion respecting the 
fecundation of this genus, I was induced Sd xai i 
species with more care than usual, ‘that Im ht, 
thoroughly understand it: but I could neither f find any traces of 
a stigma i in the female flower, 1 nor any vestige ve the insertion of 
the 
