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lanceolate, the middle one longest. — E. B. 2032.-^A small tregi 

 L. ovate, acute, plaited when young, deeply and sharply doubly 

 serrate.^ — Damp clayey woods and hedges. T. V. Ei 



Division V. GYMNOSPERMiE. 



Ovules and seeds apparently naked. Carpel spread out flati 

 No calyx, nor corolla. 



Order LXXIX. CONIFEEJS. 



Fl. monoecious or dioecious.'^Barren fl. of one or more mona- 

 delphoua stamens, in a deciduous catkin, about a common axis. 

 Anth. of 2 or more lobes bursting outwards, often ending in a 

 scalelike crest.— Fertile fl. usually in cones, sometimes solitary. 

 Ovary spread open in the shape of a scale and placed in the axil 

 of a membranous bract ; in the solitary fl. apparently wanting. 

 Ovules naked in pairs on the face of the ovary and inverted ; of 

 (in the solitary fl.) erect. [Or, as some think : ovaries in pairs 

 (or several), inverted, on a scale (which becomes the cone-acale) 

 situated in the axil of a bract ; each of 2 connate carpels having 

 together the form of a. horseshoe or ring and ultimately pro- 

 ducing a wing ; ovule between the carpels, its tips exposed ; or 

 erect, the 2 carpels uniting' in the form of a cup, without a car- 

 peUary scale.] Fr. a cone, or solitary seed. Testa hard, crus- 

 taoeous. Embryo in the axis of fleshy albumen. Radicle next 

 the apex. — Woody tissue marked with circular disks ; without 

 medullary rays or proper vascular tissue. 



Tribe I. TAXINEM Male fl. in catkins. Fern. fl. solitary, 

 naked or bracteate, erect ; no carpeUary scale. 



1. Taxus. Catkins of male fl. oval, scaly below, flowering 

 at the top. Stam. many. Anth. peltate, 3 — 8-celled. Fem. 

 fl. scaly below. Style 0. Ovule surrounded at the base by 

 a ring which becomes a fleshy cupshaped disk surrounding 

 the seed. 



Tr. 11. CUPRESSINEJE. Male fl. in catkins. Anth. 4—7, 

 inserted on the edge of the subpeltate scales, Fem. fl. few, 

 in a small catkin, erect ; no carpellary scale. 



2. JuNiPEETJS. Anth. 4 — 7, 1-celled, inserted on the lower 

 edge of the scales. Scales of the fem. catkin imbricate, 

 lower ones barren. Ovules 8, surrounded by a 3-fid fleshy 

 involucre formed of the 3 uppermost connate scales of the 

 catkin. 



