100 ON THE COMPARATIVE MORPHOLOGY OF SCIADOPITYS. 
A more complete examination of similar specimens would obviously 
be desirable, but in the meantime, so far as they go, they lend little 
or no support to the notion that these organs are purely foliar, but 
they are not inconsistent with the views that the parts in question 
are of axial or of combined axial and foliar nature 
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proliferous cones such as represented in Veitch’s ‘ Manual,’ p. 201, 
it may be of some interest to record the principal points observed. 
side appendages bearing rudimentary ovules? is suggestive as regards the theory 
of Braun and Caspary as to the nature of the seed-scale of Abietinee. 
The young cone of Sciadopitys ig cylindric-oblong, obtuse at both 
ends. The lower bracts are deltoid-lanceolate, pinkish brown and 
‘membranous, and obviously serially continuous with the tue 
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The bracts increase in size from below u wards, more particul 
in width, and their basal portion become considerably thickened. 
Tn passing upwards, the thickened portion of the bract increases 
size, while the thinner membranous portion either shrivels up 
falls away entirely. The lowermost bracts are empty, those 
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