Geology and Natural Ih'ttor;/. 

 and analyses of Copper ores, Smithsoi] 

 Flower of G) 



Delia Organogenia del fio 

 nota di O. Beocaki. Extr. irom im>oc» u, 

 Italia no, vol. ix, No. 1. Jan. 1877. With a 

 observations and notes were made at Ternate, 

 He was not aware that anything on the subje 

 published in Kuropo; hut \\i his paper he refi 

 having first asserted tliat the whole floral appa 

 belongs to the ovule. Beccari describes the prop 

 viz: those of the fertile anient, and distinguish* 

 abortive female flowers whi eh accompany the n 

 latter have only two envelopes and no embry( 

 have three, and* the embryo-sac appears at the tii 

 The ovule or female flower — whichever it be eal 

 in the axil of an ament-seale, the nature of which 



Its body or central part is an ovular nucleu; 



or cupule around the base of the nucleus, which in due time it 

 ; it shows no indication of a bipartite division or lobing. 

 Soon after this becomes manife- nnates sum- 



,., beyond it and beyond the 

 being extended into a styliform tube with a 

 apex. This internal and fla.-'k-shaped cat i- h-uii-t m 

 female flowers of the male anient, but is les> prolong d : tn. . x- 

 ternal coat equally exists; bul 



envelope of W'hrM,[i. -..nh 

 er and confluent-diphyllous. I 

 sac is earpellarv and diphyllous 

 pport of this view turns upon 

 acece with other Gymuosperms i 

 nia; it is most unlikely that *» 

 I with such a high type of ovule 



