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Fig. B. FRUCTIFICATION OF SAXE-GOTn,*:A. 



transition from the one-flowered Taxads to the true imbricated Conifers, -withont, however, break- 

 ing down the boundary between those orders, as I understand them, bnt rather confirming tlie 

 propriety of limiting the Coniferous order to those genera which really bear cones instead of 

 single naked seeds. In the language of some naturalists, Saxe-Gothrea would be called an osculant 

 genus between Taxads and Conifers. 



The leaves of this plant have altogether the size and general appearance of the English Yew, 

 Tajrus baccata ; but thoy are glaucous underneath, except upon the midrib and two narrow stripes 

 within the edges, which are a pale green. The male flowers consist of spikes appearing at the 

 ends of the branches, in a raceme more or less elongated. These spikes (fig. B. 1) grow from 

 Avithin a few concave acute scales, which form a kind of involucre at the base. Each male is a 

 y membranous anther, with a lanceolate, acuminate, reflexed appendage, and a pair of 

 allel cells opening longitudinally. The female flowers form a small roundish, pedunculated, 



