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was. I am inclined, however, to believe it to have been 
much nearer the truth than is generally supposed ; judging 
of it from a comparison of his essential with his artificial 
generic character, and from an observation recorded in his 
PrcElectiones^ published by Giseke 
But the first clear account that I have met with, of 
the real structure of Pinus, as far as regards the direction, 
or base and apex of the female flowers, is given, in 1767, by 
Trew, who describes them in the following manner ; Singula 
semina vel potius germina stigmati tanquam organo feminino 
gaudentt,” and his figure of the female flower of the Larch, 
in which the stigmata project beyond the base of the scale, 
removes all doubt respecting his meaning. 
In 1789, M. de Jussieu, in the character of his genus 
Abies I, gives a similar account of structure, though some- 
what less clearly as well as less decidedly expressed. In 
the observations that follow, he suggests, as not impro- 
bable, a very different view, founded on the supposed ana- 
logy with Araucaria, whose structure was then misunder- 
stood ; namely, that the inner scale of the female amentum 
is a bilocular ovarium, of which the outer scale is the style. 
But this, according to Sir James Smith §, was also Linnaeus’s 
opinion ; and it is the view adopted in Mr. Lambert’s splen- 
did monograph of the genus published in 1803. 
In the same year in which Mr. Lambert’s work appeared, 
Schkuhr 1| describes, and very distinctly figures, the female 
flower of Pinus, exactly as it was understood by Trew, whose 
opinion was probably unknown to him. 
* Prailect. in Ord. Nat. p. 589. 
t Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Curios, iii. p. 453. tab. IS. fig. 23. 
X Gen. PI. p. 414. 
§ Rees’s Cyclop, art. Pinus. 
II Botan. Handb. iii. p. 276*. tab. 308. 
