284 Scientific Intelligence. 
The tribe Araucariee is characterized by multilocular anthers, the cells 
linear and hanging free, cupressaceous (i. ¢., simple and globose) pollen, 
simple scales to the female ament [which appear to answer to bracts and 
not carpophylls}, inyerted ovules, and naked buds, 
The tribe Abietinee, by bilocular anthers, with oblong and separate 
cells, pinaceous (rarely cupressaceous) pollen, double and separate scales 
to the female ament, inverted ovules, and scaly buds. 
The tribe Curninghamiew, by the 2 or 3 short cells to the anthers, 
cupressaceous pollen, double scales to the female ament (the inner one 
smaller) but completely or incompletely coalescent into one body, invert 
ovules, and mostly naked buds. To this tribe our author doubifully 
refers Sequoia ! . 
he tribe Tuzodinew, by the 3—5-locular anthers, with roundish appo 
site cells, cupressaceous pollen, the scales of the fertile ament double, 
nearly equal, and coalescent, or their tips free, the ovules erect, and the 
buds naked. 
vincingly defends the gymnospermous doctrine, impugned by 
Baillon, and Parlatore, and adopts and fortifies A. Braun’s view ae ee 
inner or ovuliferous scale in the Abietinee is a metamorphosis 
or 
of the ovules of Abietinee and Ci 
