in the Natural Order of Conifere, s TUM 811. 
at th: a S Coniferw, “ Semen vere bilobum extat, scissura du- 
plici opposita profundiore lobos definiente ; sed iidem in germinatione 
partiti et radiatim patentes divisuris linearibus verticillum men- 
tiuntur. polyphyllum involucro umbellifero emulum, unde quedam. 
Conifere, et precipue. Pinus, polycotyledones. dicuntur." I have 
examined with the most scrupulous nicety the embryos of the - 
Norway Spruce Fir, Black Spruce, Silver Fir, Balm of Gilead 
Fir, Scotch Fir, Larch, and Cedar of Libanus, both before and 
after germination, without ever being able to find two opposite 
divisions deeper than the rest: so that there is not the smallest 
doubt they are truly polycotyledonous. . The number of coty- 
ledons, moreover, is by no means constant, even in the same 
species, and they approach the succeeding leaves in structure 
much nearer than any we are dnd rab nud with, _ being, like 
them, biennial.. riire 5 nhi (fot 
Having now fond a mak inaia in the foyer of 
Larix, to distinguish it from Abies and Pinus; being also fa- 
voured by the liberality of Sir Joseph Banks with specimens of 
the Chinese Fir, the Chili Pine, the Norfolk Island Pine, and that | 
still more curious tree the Dammar of Amboina, which he 
long since. pointed out to me in Rumphius's work, as being a 
true Conifera, I shall. finish this. pupa eg CHE pestes of all 
these. seven pete. x i 
A CONIFERE: dien EU Es A niuis: b 
Sect. 2. ; Pe ericarpia . obversa, nec ut in. Cupresso erecta, juxta basin 
5 SET si seein Vds i Neca 1 
ird "dde te | AGaTHIs. © iiss i 
Te Sn crasse, in estive aal: imbricatz. | .An- : 
thera. multilocularis, Fæm. Squame in Strobilum. magnitu- : 
dine ovi anserini subrotundum imbri 
ricate, dorso nude nec 
; bracteatie, 
