28 PINACE^ 



BACCIFEtl^. 



S.D. I. — DaCRYDIUM. — Tlie Giim-exuding Pine. 

 S.D. n. — JUNIPERINE^E. — The Juniper Tribe. 



§ 1. — Cupressoides. — The Cypress-like. 



§ 2. — Oxycedrus. — The Prickly Cedar. 



§ 3. — Sabinoides. — The Savin-like. 

 S.D. m. — PODOCARPEuE.— The Fruit Foot-stalked Pine Tribe. 



§ 1. — Calophyllus. — The Beautiful-leaved. 



§ 2. — Stachy carpus. — The Spike-fruited. 

 S.D. lY.— SyMMORPHAPITEuE. — The Allied Pine Tribe. 



§ 1. — Ch-setocladus. — The Bristle-like Branched. 



§ 2. — Phylloeladus. — The Leaf-like Branched. 



§ 3. — Pteropliyll-iis. — The Feather-like Leaved. 

 S.D. Y._Taxine^.— The Yew Tribe. 



§ 1. — Cephalotaxus. — The Cluster-flowered. 



§ 2. — Foetataxus. — The Strong Odored. 



§ 3. — Squamataxus. — The Scale-fruited. 



§ 4. — Verataxus. — The True or Prototype. 



CHAPTEE III 



DIVISIOX OXE. 



CONIFER/E. 



Mowers. These are what are termed catkins, and are of the two 

 sexes, male and female; the males are the floral organs which produce 

 the pollen dust or fecundating powder, and after having performed 

 their functions fade and disappear; the females have no petals or 

 bloom-leaves, as in other more perfectly formed flowers, being minus 

 pericarpal adornments, and composed of naked ovules or embryo-scales ; 

 vrhich, after receiving the pollen dust from the male catkins, become 

 fertile, and begin to grow, gradually developing themselves untU. the 

 cone and its seeds are perfectly matured ; so that the female flowers 

 may in truth be termed the embryo or premature cones : in some of the 



