CONIFEILE 



553 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, glabrous, green, finely striate, soon 

 becoming woody, 2*8-3 - 9 cm. long. 



Cotyledons two, linear, obtuse, glabrous, 1'7 cm. long, 2 mm. wide. 



Stem erect, suffrutescent and soon becoming woody, subangular, 

 glabrous, green ; 1st internode 2 mm. long ; 2nd 3 mm. ; 3rd 1-5 mm. ; 

 4th '5 mm. 



Leaves simple, entire, cauline, exstipulate, sessile, opposite in 

 the seedling state, but the pairs at the 

 growing point develop unequally, as if al- 

 ternate, glabrous, persistent, deep green 

 above, paler beneath, with a prominent 

 midrib on both faces. 



First pair lanceolate-linear, attenuate, 

 acute, !? cm. long. 



Second and third pairs linear, sub- 

 acute. 



Fourth pair linear, cuspidate. 



Fifth pair linear, cuspidate, very un- 

 equal in size, the shorter one not half the 

 length of the other, at least while young 

 and still growing. 



Ultimate leaves alternate or scattered, 

 arranged distichously in a double row on 

 each side of the branches with the upper 

 faces all turned in one direction, and ar- 

 ticulated with a linear-oblong, cushion- 

 like piece, adnate to the branches ; upper 

 series of leaves shorter than, and alter- 

 nating with the series beneath it ; leaves 

 linear, straight or falcate, acute or cuspi- 

 dately acute, persistent, deep green above, 

 paler beneath, especially when young, 

 with a prominent midrib on both sur- 

 faces, and a very pale line on each side of the midrib beneath. 



Pinus Pinaster, Soland. 



Ovary consisting of an open carpel on the base of the inner face 

 of which two ovules are seated on a process termed an ovuliferous 

 scale ; ovules reversed, adnate to the scale in the early part of the 

 season ; micropyle inferior. 



Fruit a cone consisting of scales spirally arranged in many 

 series. The carpellary scales do not increase after fertilisation, re- 

 maining small, and membranous ; but the inner seminiferous scales 



FIG. 677. Taxus baccata. 

 Nat. size. 



