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case of the tree at the Botanic Garden. It was found in certain instances 
that the proliferating axis, instead of being merely a leafy shoot, bore 
male cones. ‘This condition, so far as the writer has been able to observe, 
has not hitherto been described. Owing to repairs being made at the 
greenhouses, this tree had been placed horizontally in a dark pit for the 
winter. This unnatural condition perhaps accounted for the abnormal 
growths. 
Fics. 1-4 
Figs. 1 and 2 show female cones bearing clusters of male cones on 
their elongated axes. Fig. 3 shows a normal cluster of male cones and 
another cluster on the proliferated female cone. Fig. 4 shows a normal 
female cone on the left, a female cone on the right bearing a vegetative 
branch, and a female cone in the center bearing a cluster of male cones.— 
ANSEL F. Hemenway, Harvard University. 
