CI. 15.] CONIFERS. 191 



(61:7), formed of densely imbricated scales separating 

 the Flowers, and each performing the office of a Ca- 

 lyx. Germen superior, conical, sometimes 2 or more, 

 with as many Styles and Stigmas. Seeds, or single- 

 seeded Capsules, as many as the Germens. Embryo 

 cylindrical, in the centre of a fleshy Albumen, the 

 2 Cotyledons either undivided, or sometimes cloven, 

 as if palmate, into numerous segments, appearing, in 

 Pinus, as if there were many distinct Cotyledons (89). 

 Stem arboreous or shrubby."' 



Sect. 1. Calyx bearing the Stamens. Ephedra, 

 Casuarina (see above), and Taxus, fig. 275. 



Sect. 2. Calyx wanting. Scales bearing the Sta- 

 mens. True Coniferce. Juniperus, Cupressus, Thuya, 

 Dombeya Schreb. 704 (Araucaria Juss.), Pinus, fig. 

 276, and Abies (the last including Abies and Larlv 

 of Tournefort). 



To these are to be added Agathis, Salisb. Tr. of 

 Linn. Soc. v. 8. 311, Podocarpus L'Herit., Dacry- 

 dium Soland. fig. 277, and Callitris Venten. Dec. 

 Gen. Nov. 10. 



The structure of the Pistil of Coniferaz, long mis- 

 understood, has been explained by Mirbel, Schou- 

 bert, and Brown. These writers describe a covering, 

 termed by them Cupula, but which Linnaeus would 

 probably have called Nectarium, closely investing 

 the Germen, and, in most cases, the Stigma also. 

 This becoming pulpy, forms the red halfdrupaof 

 Ta.vus; and is double in Podocarpus and Daerydium, 



