Geology and Natural History. 379 
less jg; mabe A synonym of the Texan species, whatever it be, 
is Buckley, in Proceed. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., Dec., 
their light and most abundant pollen is correlated to this, and 
the structure of the fertile inflorescence is such that the pollen 
reaches the very orifice of the ovule. In Yew and Cypress, and 
in other if not all other genera of the sub-orders they represent, 
Delpino finds that, at the time when the ovule is ready for fecun- 
as to its appearance, function, and re-absorption, to his late vener- 
able townsman, Vaucher, and is described in his Physiology of the 
ys of Europe, published in 184 
likely ind 
this “A ependent. | ‘Gakage! i ally constructed on dichoga- 
