958 Thoday and Ber ridge.— The Anatomy and Morphology of 
groups (Text-fig. II. 8 and 9). The two pairs of foliar bundles now pass 
out in the ordinary way towards the bract, and the little median bundles 
pass out a short distance with them (Text-fig. II. 9). After the bundles 
have entered the base of the bract the median bundle curves backwards 
a little towards the centre of the axis and with two of the axial bundles 
Text-fig. ii. i-ii. Series of transverse sections 
through the female strobilus of E. distachya , described 
in text. b 1} b 2 , and b 3 = bundles supplying lowest, 
middle, and upper pairs of bracts respectively ; oi = 
bundles supplying outer integument. The middle 
cupule has been omitted in 9, and the upper cupule 
in 11. 
enters the ovule. With the formation of the two ovules the growth of the 
axis ceases, and all the vascular elements are therefore used up in the 
ovular supply (Text-fig. II. 10). 
The behaviour of the bundle system at the level of origin of the ovule 
is similar in essentials to its behaviour at the origin of an ordinary vegetative 
