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Church (48) says of it; ,the flattened stigma head, at 
first sight a new departure, is only an enlarged funnel 
with closed aperture, the essential and special feature of 
which consists in the remarkable specialisation of the epi- 
dermal cells of the expanded lips. The large rounded 
papillose cells, the outer walls of which are strongly 
thickened and pitted, the lumen being almost obliterated 
in the papillae, are certainly not secretory, but indicate a 
marked xerophytic structural adaptation, the papillae being 
restricted to the disk surface, and the edges of the lips, so 
far as to exactly close over the aperture to the tube”. 
(n°455) 
Sofar the description of the female and male strobili, 
the next will be a comparison between both and a deter- 
mination of the morphological value of the various organs, 
which has not yet been given in the description. 
It is evident that we must try to find a same foundation 
for both kinds of strobili, but immediately there are a 
great many difficulties. The best way to make this clear 
will be in discussing the comparison made by Lignier 
et Tison (89) 
The first cyclus of organs we see are the two small 
transverse bracts in the male strobilus of the second order 
and with these, both bracts correspond, which have been 
found a few times at the base of the female strobilus of the 
second order. The second whorl, the perianth of the male 
flower has entirely disappeared in the female one. So far 
there is not much difficulty in comparing the two!) but 
now comes a less acceptable homologization. The staminal 
series in the male flower should be equivalent to the 
winged envelopment in the female one. ;,Le verticille II 
qui produit l'enveloppe ailée, malgré sa différenciation si 
spéciale ne peut être assimilé qu'au verticille staminal. Le 
nombre des faisceaux sortants n'est, il est vrai, pas le 
même dans les deux cas; mais il ne semble pas douteux 
