Tso. 492] NOTES AND LITERATURE 



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which in Agathis is provided with a single wing. In Araucaria the 

 scale develops a ligulate appendage and the ovule is imbedded in the 



The ovule and embryo were only casually studied and not much is 

 added to what we knew before in regard to these. 



The fossil Araiicariaccae are ])crhai)s of (>^cn more intcrc<^t than the 

 livino- ouvx. Wliih' there is some doul.t of the (xrunvnce of true 



bers of (h(> ( 'otiifcrac. ( )f Paleozoic fossils not improbably of Arau- 

 carian afhiiity. jhc omus ^^.•ll(•hia shows the closest resemblance to 



