104 ON THE COMPARATIVE MORPHOLOGY OF SCIADOPITYS. 
Proliferous Cones.—These have been so recently investigated 
by Hichler,* that it is not requisite here to enter into detail about 
these outgrowths. In general, the bracts in such cases becom 
more or less leafy, that is, their always foliar character becomes 
enhanced, the seed-scale disappears, and in its place are found buds 
or leaf-bearing shoots. (Figs. 2, 8). Such conditions are very 
common in the larch and in Cryptomeria japonica, and I have met 
with it in species of Tsuga and in Abies Douglasii. Parlatore figures 
a fascicle of ‘‘needles” coming from the axil of the bract in Pinus 
oniana. er what has been published, however, it is only 
necessary to allude to two instances of prolification which have not 
n under the observation of Professor Hichler. I allude to 
prolified cones of Sciadopitys verticillata and of Cunninghamia 
sinensis respectively. 
Prolification of Cone of Sciadopitys—The first intimation I had 
of such a production was derived from Veitch’s ‘Manual of the 
. 
Conifers,’ p. 202, wherein such a cone is figured from the col- 
produced in France, and for an opportunity of examining which 
am indebted to M. Carriére. 
n the ordinary cone the bracts are inseparate from the seed- 
scale for nearly their whole length (fig. 5, a, 8), but in Messrs. 
Veitch’s specimen the bracts were gradually detached from the 
scale, the bracts themselves becoming not more and more leafy, 
as they usually do in proliferous cones, but more and more perular 
in character. From the axil of some of the uppermost of these 
an f 
Parlatore. But, though occupying the same position, 
already been alluded to, so far as regards the outgrowth from the 
inner surface of the bracts. The leaves of this tree are pseudo- 
* Eichler, ‘ Ueber Bildungsabweichungen bei Fichtenzapfen,’ Sitzber. Kon- 
Acad. Wissenschaft, Berlin, 1882; Masters,in Gard. Chron., January 28, 1882, p. 112. 
+ ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ Jan. 28, 1882, p. 112. : 
