Cl. 15.] CON1FER/F.. 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 Stamens. 

 True Conifers. Jimipcrus, Cttpressus, Thuya, Dom- 

 beya Schreb. 704 (Araucaria Juss.), Pinus, fig. 276, 

 and Abies (the last including Abies and Lariv 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 Coniferce, 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 half-drupa of 

 Taxus ; and is double in Podocarpus and Dttcrydittm, 



