
          theses you are maintaining has 
 begun at the wrong end. I go 
 back now to your first paper, and 
 I will briefly comment on the two 
 [crossed out: points] [added: main] morphological points in it;
 viz. 1, "that the fascicles in Pinus
 are phylloid shoots"; 2. that "the
 true leaves of Coniferae are usually
 adnate with the branches."
 I know that you desire me to speak 
 my mind: in doing so I must 
 deny the first proposition, and 
 doubt the second.


 As to the first. By "phylloid 
 shoots" [crossed out: I pr] I understand you to 
 mean [crossed out: that] branches which
 take the form and office of leaves; as
 for instance, the so-called leaves of
 Asparagus and of Myrsiphyllum
 are phylloid shoots, i.e. are morphologically
 branches. And you mean, 
 speaking precisely, not "that the
 fascicles in Pinus are phylloid shoots,"
        