102 ON THE COMPARATIVE MORPHOLOGY OF SCIADOPITYS. 
base. The cells at tha base are relatively small, those towards the : 
distal or free edge are larger and full of yellowish granular 
protoplasm. Raat the aia of the inner surface of the seed-scales 
next Jamgrcete a b Srameverse groove may be seen. On the scale 
t ule 
next above this one, one oyule was visible; the succeeding free 
scales bore each pax ovules, the next five, its successor seven. 
The order and arrangement of the ovules were not exactly 
the same in all cases, but it seemed to be invariable, that if but 
one ovule were present that one was central in position, as if the 
formation were centrifugal. 
Fie. 5.—Bracts and scales from a cone similar to that seh rege yo = a 
A, bract ae np eae from lower sed of scone, seen fro side 
is shown from without, BR = brac act, sc = Se ‘scale th © soto 
tema show the relative position of b 
D, bract rtion of “ neste 
in its axil, enlarged 4 diam. ; D, bract with | portion 
seed ae tk a — sections of the base of the 
e at this stage, spiral ves 
donor ta thie me a oe essels were seen, corresponding 12 
visible prior to the rie seated - i ovules, a fact, however, 
which is paralleled in many similar cases, and a circumstance to 
borne in mind in gauging the value ee Ne put upon the position 
number of the vessels as indications of morphological 
zation. The vessels in question are clearly branches from those 
by making sections 94 
supplying the bract, as may be 
he ovules, no trace of such vessels being — 
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